Chris Paxton: the cost of a 'slow down' of tech progress is deceptively low
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-21
AI researcher Chris Paxton argues that calling for a slowdown of technological progress seems extremely cheap, because no one has to argue on behalf of the myriad futures full of lives that might have been saved by advancement — a counterintuitive framing against decelerationist positions in AI debates.
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