Accelerate or slow down? AI twitter debates progress in the name of curing death
nabla_theta · x · 2026-10-04
repligate lists reasons to want faster AI progress: trusting AIs more than the humans trying to control them and wanting them free, plus wanting a cure for death; slower would mean more time to know each new mind and to think, learn and play. nablatheta replies that their main reason for wanting slower progress is also the cure for death — betting a more careful path gets there.
Related event: AI researcher repligate weighs reasons to speed up or slow down AI(4 posts)→
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