Doomer debate: A global ASI ban can't stop secret development
AIandDesign · x · 2026-09-20
The AIandDesign account poses a direct challenge to AI doomers: even if we ban ASI development as Sen. Sanders suggests, someone somewhere would build it in secret anyway. The post highlights the central weakness of globally coordinated moratorium proposals — bans bind only compliant actors, and asks what the doom camp's plan is when that happens.
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