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I Don't Want the Civilization to Be Snuffed Out
I don't no one, i think, is going to be able to switch off scientific progress. There are precedents. Athe biologist switched off progress on direct modification of the human geno in ways that are what they call heritable modifications, germ line editing. They decided that that was not something they wanted to do. And when you're talking about civilizational potential the observable universe, ou no galactic sized empires, von neman probes,. making everything as you know, ou're talking trillions and trillions of human lives. Even if you go from the utilitarian approach, you have an unlimited amount of utility and happiness that could be given. Because we're unable at the moment to slow