The risks posed by emerging technology is rapidly outpacing our ability to manage them, both technologically and philosophically. Reservedly, I'm convinced tha

The risks posed by emerging technology is rapidly outpacing our ability to manage them, both technologically and philosophically. Reservedly, I'm convinced that the best thing that could happen to humanity would be some event that drastically slows technological progress, such as an event which reduces the population to somewhere between 10,000 and 1,000,000 individuals but without nearly causing extinction. Ideally, those remaining people would be especially intelligent and pro-social. This would give us far more time to get our act together by building a robust epistemology-driven civilization where our ability to handle advanced tech outpaces the emergence of such tech.