Researcher's Dilemma: If the God-Machine Is Achievable, Collective Shutdown Is the Only Option
soldni · x · 2026-09-13
Researcher soldni offers a framing for the AI slowdown debate: the key question is whether the 'god-machine' is achievable. If it is, there's definitionally no limit and collective shutdown is the only option; if AI ultimately has limits, slowdown makes sense. He also asks what the upside of building a technology that causes mass unemployment even in the best case could be.
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