I think I’m an AI accelerationist. When confronted with thinking machines, some people’s first instinct is to impose as many restrictions as possible, then appoint themselves arbiters of what constitutes a worthwhile use of tokens.
I find that instinct deeply counterproductive. Prescribing what people should be allowed to spend tokens on is not fundamentally different from prescribing what they should spend their own brainpower thinking about. Intelligence is useful precisely because people will find uses for it that no central authority could anticipate.
Thinking machines should be treated much like any other capable worker: give them access to the tools and resources they need to do their jobs, while maintaining sensible permission boundaries around critical systems. The goal should be to make intelligence abundant and useful, not artificially scarce because someone has decided which thoughts are worthy of computation.