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Even if it was a good idea - how would you draw a boundary between AI and the rest of computing? In the end you'd have to go full Butlerian Jihad and prohibit computation in general, or at least limit allowed computing power.


> limit allowed computing power

This will of course be the policy set by physics once we have exhausted all the easily accessible energy reserves: limited everything power. Nature will conduct Butlerian jihad with no great zeal or ardor, but with just patience.


That's going to take a very long time, there's massive amounts of solar, geothermal, and wind energy left available. Hell, natural gas is a waste product of oil drilling.




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