Slowing Moore's Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It

gwern

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

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

I think you should consider the hypothesis that you are over-reacting before the hypothesis that lots of different beta readers are all under-reacting.

(Which in turn is more likely than the hypothesis that the beta readers have a neurological condition that causes them to under-react.)

I think you should consider the hypothesis that you are over-reacting

Except that I didn't over-react. I wasn't upset. I just went "Is this a piece endorsing terrorism?" looked into it further, realized this interpretation is false, and wandered away for a while.

Then I saw mention after mention around the site saying that people were creeped out by this piece.

I came back and saw that someone had left because of it - like, for real, as in they haven't posted since they said they were leaving due to the piece. And then I went "Wow a lot o... (read more)

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