[vessenes]

It is a very bad thing. Your friends do not have a solid understanding of geopolitics and are putting many, many people at risk worldwide, possibly for a generation or longer.

The reason this petition is a bad thing is if it is effective it will create a global panopticon surveillance state, while INCREASING incentives to avoid that state and ‘defect’ in game theoretic terms. It is fucking begging for the worst people in the world to have a lot more time to create what will be the most valuable thing in the world, their very own ‘helpful only’ model.

As conceived of by your friends, who I believe are all good people and want to help, they are locking what is already a very difficult game theoretic strategic scenario into a zero-trust game in which defection pays. It pays so amazingly well that they have to add both impossible and TERRIBLE penalties to the entire world to try and shake the game out of this zero-trust state.

Begging Senators to force a slowdown on the world is going to result in … a slowdown on the US labs at best. It’s just a terrible idea with terrible first and second order consequences highly likely.

What SHOULD be done instead is acknowledge the economic and warfare realities of this tech and try and construct a non-zero-trust game out of them. I’m not saying this is simple. In the interim while we hope for another Von Neumann to come forward, they MUST race, and any country that thinks its possible we’ll have some sort of lift-off and wants to be on the right side of it MUST also race, and MUST NOT politicize the idea of slowing down as a good thing.

[veeti]

Did these guys miss who they elected for president again? No sane person anywhere else in the world is going to go along with said """governance""".