> If it is something that's a hundred plus years out then we'll probably need whatever tech develops in the mean time to help Circular justification of technol

> If it is something that's a hundred plus years out then we'll probably need whatever tech develops in the mean time to help Circular justification of technological development is the reason unfriendly AGI is a threat in the first place (and also the reason we are unlikely to see it realized, imo; the internal combustion engine for instance poses existential risks not only to people but to the possibility of machine intelligence). Technology is not a monolith, forms can and do preclude other forms