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Baughn comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong Discussion

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: Baughn 13 June 2013 08:02:55PM 0 points [-]

We have to cope with humanity as it is, at least until there's an AI overlord. Ignoring the other counterarguments for a moment, does voluntarily stopping economic expansion and halting technological progress sound like something humanity is capable of doing?