The Gavin Baker vs. Sholto Douglas exchange on the economic concentration of power of AI is one of the best AI debates. Here's a gist with some context and some thoughts: One of the central themes of the debate offense-defense balance and how it governs whether AI is (or should be) concentrated in the hands of few or distributed to many. The core idea behind offense-defense balance, outlined in Robert Jervis's 1978 essay "Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma" on world politics, is: for a…