Bloominton City Council Unanimously Bans Recursively Self-Improving Superintelligence From City Limits
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-09
Bloomington, Indiana's city council voted unanimously this week to ban any recursively self-improving entity capable of greatly outperforming all humans on all cognitive tasks from inside city limits, citing existential hazards and loss of human control. The quote-tweeter could only respond with laughter.
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