| What happens when a country doesn't agree to play along with this little decel game? The genie is already out of the bottle and now a bunch of people who helped release it think that the collective powers of the world are just going to put it back in. How far are the saftyists willing to go? Bombing data centers? Starting wars? Embargos? It's a terrible dilemma to be in. If the threats are real, it gives all the more incentive for some actor to race and try to grab it first. If not, then any punishment isn't proportional. Explain to a nations citizens under a 10 year embargo, "sorry about your quality of life, we all just got a little spooked by science fiction for a second." Folks try to reach for bad analogies: nuclear bombs and biological weapons. But conveniently omit that by the time the regulations took place for these things we had unequivocal proof of their destruction, scope and scale. So, what then? We're supposed to collectively stop innovating and put the keys to the kingdom in the hands of a few capitalists, a corrupt is administration and the ccp? I reject that these agreements should take place, on the grounds that the proposal is delusional and not founded in reality. |