[somesortofthing]

A US-China AGI ban treaty could prevent superintelligence indefinitely. Data centers are hard to hide. Have fun buying GPUs when you're cut off from all global payments. America would have to make some unpleasant concessions but that seems like a solid trade for preventing a wide variety of nightmare futures.

[leonidasv]

Is very difficult (not to say impossible) to ban a ill-defined thing.