But there is forking! We ban all forking, anything that sounds like it and all technological progress. In fact we order you back to the stone age!
Feels like its already a new arms race cold war trying to errupt. Maybe it is the SI stuff. Maybe some Manhattan project types told some statest there is a way to build unbeliveable God like power but you must not let your enemies get it first! Its a political atom bomb. And they got their unified field theory and sequenced their genomes and this is what is next on the agenda. Plus its got some terrible sex appeal because if there was something worse than an in place nuclear dooms day machine or way to win a nuke war it would be building a potentially malevolent invincible over lord.
I think people like Hawking expressed fear over mere AI recently because they got wind of super foolish state projects to build SI and this jack ass low grade cyber war spy out in the open on your own citizens instistance is them trying to follow the logic and the first salvo. We may now be in a racec to build something worse than nuclear weapons.
In the US they waste close to a trillion a year on defense. They go on about total info awareness and prisms and have all seeing eye logos, They buy data as power. They’ve been dreaming of sky scraper sized computers since Vanyver Bush. They’ve been into mind control since the beginning of history and certainly since MK Ultra. They haven’t become more moral or ethical as Cheney demostrated. They are probably being mind controlled right now by some alien sub space SI into building it a local node.
Saw the blue lights in the sky a few days ago? Well building a comparatively infant SI might give us a chance at countering mature alien SI… and other defense fueling nonsense. An SI sounds like a nuke that you can’t ‘test’ because if it works its like a nuke that never stops exploding, a perpetual nuke. Read Nick Bostrom’s book to understand how irresistible this story and logic would be for statists. We might be one hundred years away but the idea is a political black hole fueled by PR stunts like the Watson demonstration. They will have to spy on us to make sure we don’t get the overlord first or don’t unleash the wrong version.