"Sam’s post: At some point, the balance between the upsides and downsides of deployments (such as empowering malicious actors, creating social and economic disruptions, and accelerating an unsafe race) could shift, in which case we would significantly change our plans aroundcontinuousdeployment."
To me this means: "Our continuous deployment plan is subject to big changes if we think that the circumstances need it". So basically, they are ready to stop the continuous deployment and reassess their approach if things go south.
"Sam’s post: At some point, the balance between the upsides and downsides of deployments (such as empowering malicious actors, creating social and economic disruptions, and accelerating an unsafe race) could shift, in which case we would significantly change our plans around continuous deployment."
To me this means: "Our continuous deployment plan is subject to big changes if we think that the circumstances need it". So basically, they are ready to stop the continuous deployment and reassess their approach if things go south.