"To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science." - Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

This immediately made me think of the Sophons silently manipulating the sensors of particle accelerators to prevent humanity from developing advanced knowledge of particle physics.

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delichon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The level of oppression necessary to get software geeks to stop making progress on AI is similar to that necessary to get Ukrainian geeks to stop making progress on drones.

	▲	NewJazz 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Even if our oppressors are ineffective, we must still resist them and not underestinate them.
	▲	sometimelurker 24 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		unless you could convince them that making smarter-than-human AI is bad. it would be nice if we all thought this. instead they should figure out how to make dumb models faster or more efficient, that's safe
	▲	xyzsparetimexyz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not so sure those things are equivalent

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mylifeandtimes an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

and my mind went to the current US administration. Sigh. You made the better choice.