Calls to slow down, not publish, not fund seem common in the name of friendliness.
However, unless those are internationally coordinated, a highly likely effect will be to ensure that superintelligence is developed elsewhere.
What is needed most—IMO—is for good researchers to be first. So—advising good researchers to slow down in the name of safety is probably one of the very worst possible things that spectators can do.
Calls to slow down, not publish, not fund seem common in the name of friendliness.
However, unless those are internationally coordinated, a highly likely effect will be to ensure that superintelligence is developed elsewhere.
What is needed most—IMO—is for good researchers to be first. So—advising good researchers to slow down in the name of safety is probably one of the very worst possible things that spectators can do.