I agree that we should be looking at investment, and carefully considering the offense-defense balance of the new technology. Investments into safety seem important, and we should certainly look at how to balance the two sides—but you were arguing against building a stop button, not saying that the real issue is that we need to figure out how much safety research (and, I hope, actual review of models and assurances of safety in each case,) is needed before proceeding. I agree with your claim that this is the key issue—which is why I think we desperately need a stop button for the case where it fails, and think we can’t build such a button later.
I agree that we should be looking at investment, and carefully considering the offense-defense balance of the new technology. Investments into safety seem important, and we should certainly look at how to balance the two sides—but you were arguing against building a stop button, not saying that the real issue is that we need to figure out how much safety research (and, I hope, actual review of models and assurances of safety in each case,) is needed before proceeding. I agree with your claim that this is the key issue—which is why I think we desperately need a stop button for the case where it fails, and think we can’t build such a button later.