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technology doesn't just advance itself
by nessbot 1y ago
technology doesn't just advance itself
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoThis is true. We have a choice...in principle. But in practice, it's like stopping an arms race.
- hollerith 1y agoWhich arms race? The nuclear arms race of the Cold War? That one got stopped.
- thatguy0900 1y agoIt's hard to say the nuclear arms race is stopped when the US actively bombed a countries nuclear processing plants recently, and the US is also talking about building the Golden dome.
- bnchrch 1y agoNo, but one thing is certain, in large human systems you can only redirect greed, you can't stop it.
- alex_duf 1y agoIf the incentive is there, the technology will advance. I hear "we need to slow down the progress of technology", but that's misunderstanding _why_ it progresses. I'm assuming the slow down camp really need to look into what's the incentive to slow down. Personally I don't think it's possible at this stage. The cat's out of the bag (this new class of tools are working) the economic incentive is way too strong.