Do you suppose that peaceful protest would have stopped the manhattan project?
Update: what I am saying is the humans working on the manhattan project anticipated possessing a basically unstoppable weapon allowing them to vaporize cities at will. They wouldn’t care if some people disagreed so long as they have the power to prevent those people from causing any significant slowdown of progress.
For agi technology humans anticipate the power to basically control local space at will, being able to order agis to successfully overcome the barriers in the way of nanotechnology and automated construction and mining and our individual lifespan limits. As long as the peaceful protestors are not physically able to interfere or get a court to interfere it’s not going to dissuade anyone who believes they are going to succeed in their personal future. (note that the court generally is unable to interfere if the agi builders are protected or are themselves a government entity)
Do you suppose that peaceful protest would have stopped the manhattan project?
Update: what I am saying is the humans working on the manhattan project anticipated possessing a basically unstoppable weapon allowing them to vaporize cities at will. They wouldn’t care if some people disagreed so long as they have the power to prevent those people from causing any significant slowdown of progress.
For agi technology humans anticipate the power to basically control local space at will, being able to order agis to successfully overcome the barriers in the way of nanotechnology and automated construction and mining and our individual lifespan limits. As long as the peaceful protestors are not physically able to interfere or get a court to interfere it’s not going to dissuade anyone who believes they are going to succeed in their personal future. (note that the court generally is unable to interfere if the agi builders are protected or are themselves a government entity)