| (I don't have an opinion on this OL (atm)) Well, if (for example) US government tomorrow via treasury or commerce or secret service sends a stern letter to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft forbidding say mining bitcoin, or whatever, it will not immediately halt things but you can be certain those companies will comply. > does Kamala Harris get to put a camera in my house to make sure I don't watch Khan Academy videos on neural nets? This is not even worthy of strawman designation. > "[the envious and the foolish]" This is possible for some of the signatories. It is also possible to read this as "make them wait while we catch up". It is also possible that many genuinely believe the pace is outstripping reasonable foresight in assessing consequences. I would re-frame the proposal this way (as a motivation to consider the open letter): If we could turn back the clock to 2000, would we change various aspects of the integration of 'social networks' into society, and if yes what would those be? |