Opposing AI Slowdown: Telling Small Devs to Stop Is Unethical
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-13
The author pushes back on calls to slow down AI development, noting that companies advocating slowdown all started early and are interconnected. If they want to slow themselves down, fine—but telling every small developer and every aspiring builder to stop and follow the leader is unethical, he argues.
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