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Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement
(www.wired.com)
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Or the real life story of the US elementary school students who saved up money to buy and then free slaves, which - when examined closer - was found to be driving growth in the slave trade, not slowing it down.
In both cases - you figure out what's off kilter, and you stop doing that.
It's a lot easier to turn off "AI machines" than, for instance, powerful industries like Oil and gas...