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Thanks. I added your phrase to my question.

• tqi 4y ago
  > As a society we can reject this technology. The point of this parable is that you explicitly cannot undo this...
• mojomark 4y ago
  The Amish seem to be a functioning society that have shunned the advances of automation - despite Pandora's box" of industrialization being opened (which of course has directly led to the pursuit of ever-increasingly capable automated and autonomous systems). Like they picked a point in time and said "nope, we're good with the way things are" while the rest of us moved on. I've always referred to this as "evolution-locking" (actively choosing not to evolve). Sometimes, in the rat-race world we live in, in all of it's superficial splender, I fantasize about that simple life. Then I think about manually plowing a field in black wool slacks on a hot summer day and I quickly come to my senses. There are certainly modern varients of evolution locking factions. Folks living "off-grid". I think our collective decision to outlaw the technical evolution of chemical warfare agents has been a triumph of collective evolution locking. Same (I hope) will be the case for global environmental controls thwarting the evolution of carbon-emitting machinery and products composed of non-sustainable materials. Write your manifesto and see if others will join. I probably won't, because I'm too curious to see what's on the other side of the signularity and I think more good will come from it than bad, but I'll read your manifesto and give it some thought.