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Aidenn0 said they're doing their best to accelerate it, and I'm saying "they're" isn't a single monolithic entity and that they're in competition with each othe

• palmotea 5mo ago
  > Aidenn0 said they're doing their best to accelerate it, and I'm saying "they're" isn't a single monolithic entity and that they're in competition with each other so they're incentivized to go as fast as possible, so it would be hard to hold them back. Maybe it would run afoul of antitrust regulations, but it's totally realistic for all those competitors to get together and say "hey, we could really fuck up society in our race to get rich with this tech, lets all slow down." And if these companies are run my mature people who don't subordinate every consideration to greed, they'd to it.
• aidenn0 5mo ago
  This is a good point, but my point is that they chose to get into this business. 1. Some people have no ethical problems making bombs. 2. Some people have an ethical problem with making bombs so do something else. 3. Some people have an ethical problem with making bombs, but say "well someone else will make it if I don't" so they make bombs. I think it is reasonable to argue against #3 as a reasonable position.