I thought pacing is just walking back and forth? So pacing the frontier would be like staying in the same place instead of making progress
replyLook up the concept of a pace car in racing, or pacer runner in marathons.
replyIt is that, but it's also your speed. When running, you typically pick a pace that's slower than your max, so it can be sustained for the full distance.
reply"Pace yourself" specifically means "slow down".
"Pace yourself" doesn't specifically mean "slow down", it actually means to maximize your speed across the full race. In other words it can mean speeding up when you look at the average pace across the entire event.
reply“… since we called for a slowdown in AI research”
replyBut stating it plainly like this would make the contradiction too obvious.