āFor others who value virtue, freedom, or equality, it is unclear why a long-term future without industrialisation is abhorrent: it all depends on oneās notion of potential.ā
Point taken. Thank you for pointing this out.
āThe TUA rarely examines the drivers of risk generation. Instead, key texts contend that regulating or stopping technological progress is either deeply difficult, undesirable, or outright impossibleā ā³regressing, relinquishing, or stopping the development of many technologies is often disregarded as a feasible optionā implies to me that one of those three options is a feasible option, or is at least worth investigating.
I think this is more about stopping the development of specific technologiesāfor example, they suggest that stopping AGI from being developed is an option. Stopping the development of certain technologies isnāt necessarily related to degrowthāfor example, many jurisdictions now ban government use of facial recognition technology, and there have been calls to abolish its use, but these are motivated by civil liberties concerns.
Point taken. Thank you for pointing this out.
I think this is more about stopping the development of specific technologiesāfor example, they suggest that stopping AGI from being developed is an option. Stopping the development of certain technologies isnāt necessarily related to degrowthāfor example, many jurisdictions now ban government use of facial recognition technology, and there have been calls to abolish its use, but these are motivated by civil liberties concerns.