[palmotea]

> AI investment will crash but AI itself (the technology) will continue thriving, learning, improving and there is absolutely no way to stop it.

No, there's is a way to stop it. As obvious counterexample: go all Butlerian Jihad: death sentence for anyone caught "making a machine in the likeness of a human mind." It's doable with a few laws and treaties. I'm not saying that's the only way it could be stopped, it's just a way it could.

I'm fucking sick of TINA, especially with arguments from vigorous assertion.

[_dwt]

HN consistently, IMO, underrates the degree to which technology adoption is “political” rather than inevitable. I was going to write a long jokey bit here but instead; counter examples - nuclear power, eugenics, the AC vs DC wars during electrification, the great firewall of China…

[goatlover]

It's techno determinism which assumes a libertarian view of markets where politics and culture don't matter.