In this essay I argue the following:
Brain emulation requires enormous computing power; enormous computing power requires further progression of Moore’s law; further Moore’s law relies on large-scale production of cheap processors in ever more-advanced chip fabs; cutting-edge chip fabs are both expensive and vulnerable to state actors (but not non-state actors such as terrorists). Therefore: the advent of brain emulation can be delayed by global regulation of chip fabs.
Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law
Oh thank goodness you did something about this! I guess you didn't read every comment on your thread, or you just didn't take rwallace seriously at first, but rwallace actually decided to quit LessWrong because of your essay. You can tell for sure because that's the last thing they said here and they haven't posted anything since March: http://lesswrong.com/user/rwallace/
Maybe somebody should let them know... since they don't come to the site anymore, that would be hard, but if you know who the person's friends are, you could ask if they'll pass the message on.
You know, it's really hard to tell how people will take one's writing before it is posted. If you'd like, I will read your stuff before you post it if you'll read mine - we can trade each other pages 1 for 1. That should reduce the risk of this happening to a much lower level.
I think that would be pretty pointless; if he could think that after reading the original, the amendments aren't going to impress him. If he's that careless a reader, LW may be better off without him. (I did read his comment: I subscribe via RSS to the comments on every article I post.) If you were to track him down and ask him to re-read, I'd give <35% that he... (read more)