Dean Ball: the sin is 'knowingly and enthusiastically bringing about the end of human civilization'
deanwball · x · 2026-10-11
Responding to Bratton's philosophical probing, Dean Ball distills his position: the sin lies not in terminology but in 'knowingly and enthusiastically bringing about the end of human civilization' — his core objection to Musk's bootloader comment and the trillion dollars allocated to that vision. The exchange crystallizes the divide between seeing machine intelligence as part of a larger chain of being versus treating it as a civilizational risk knowingly courted.
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