Sarcastic take: writing thought experiments and regulators for time machines that don't exist
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-14
- Dan Jeffries uses a sarcastic hypothetical to attack preemptive AI safety governance: "What's your plan for controlling time travel machines?"
- His mock recipe: write long thought experiments, call yourselves "researchers," then establish a regulator regime guaranteeing time travel is safe before it's ever developed, and gate its release on that.
- The satire targets current efforts to build safety regimes for AGI/superintelligence before it exists — one camp in the ongoing AI-policy debate.
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