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It’s next to impossible to ban outcomes. That’s why the idiotic war on drugs is all about banning ingredients for drugs, and still doesn’t work.

The only practical way to ban AI is to ban the hardware that makes it possible. Maybe ban silicon with more than X transistors, or ban clusters with more than Y total transistors.

It would be dumb and would not work (you can still AI on a one CPU, just very slowly). But that would be the angle prohibitionists would have to take.