That only gives you a brief delay on a timeline which could, depending on the horizons you adopt, be billions of years long. If you really wanted to reduce s-risk in an absolute sense, you’d have to try to sterilize the planet, not set back semiconductor manufacturing by a decade. This, I think, is a project which should give one pause.
That only gives you a brief delay on a timeline which could, depending on the horizons you adopt, be billions of years long. If you really wanted to reduce s-risk in an absolute sense, you’d have to try to sterilize the planet, not set back semiconductor manufacturing by a decade. This, I think, is a project which should give one pause.