It’s worth looking at medical technology for things that are massively slowed down for safety reasons. Presumably there’s a lot that is slowed down or made more expensive to the point of not happening at all.
This seems to be mostly motivated by blame-avoidance rather than large-scale-risk avoidance, but that may be sufficient for some kinds of x-risk.
Yeah, I agree. Although, I am concerned that it seems that tech which is both already established, has high profitability, and has substantial irreplaceable military benefits is exactly the sort of tech that I would least expect the government to be willing to ban. National defense and ‘our competitors will do it whether or not we do’ style thinking seems to hold a lot of sway with national governments.
It’s worth looking at medical technology for things that are massively slowed down for safety reasons. Presumably there’s a lot that is slowed down or made more expensive to the point of not happening at all.
This seems to be mostly motivated by blame-avoidance rather than large-scale-risk avoidance, but that may be sufficient for some kinds of x-risk.
Yeah, I agree. Although, I am concerned that it seems that tech which is both already established, has high profitability, and has substantial irreplaceable military benefits is exactly the sort of tech that I would least expect the government to be willing to ban. National defense and ‘our competitors will do it whether or not we do’ style thinking seems to hold a lot of sway with national governments.