[frotaur]

"and the only sane thing to do is to fully support high quality ethical research groups and firms as they get up the learning curve of this technology."

These research groups are almost unanimously advocating for a pause/slowdown as our best chance.

[vessenes]

… while they address absolutely none of the above points, except for tacitly or overtly agreeing a panopticon surveillance state is needed / desirable to get their desired ‘slow down’, a situation where the cure is infinitely worse than the disease, not least because it will not be effective at the original goal of eradicating the disease, and will instead merely persist in all the global harms such a system has as a necessary side effect.

When you are ahead, ‘slow down’ = better strategic positioning for yourself. When you are behind, ‘slow down’ = time to catch up.