<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 3:23 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My latest @Mindplex_AI article. I strongly criticize the "Statement on<br>
Superintelligence" recently issued by the Future of Life Institute. I<br>
think their proposed ban on artificial superintelligence (ASI)<br>
research is misguided and potentially dangerous.<br>
<a href="https://magazine.mindplex.ai/post/the-misguided-crusade-against-superintelligence" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://magazine.mindplex.ai/post/the-misguided-crusade-against-superintelligence</a></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I wouldn't worry about it. Pronouncements by institutes can't stop evolutionary forces which have persisted for billions of years, and which  account for over 99% of variation in the human population, economy, and rate of technological change.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See these slides for the references:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18jn51f6DXMykCAL6gjZilK27TXAZielm5djcnHuh-7k/">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18jn51f6DXMykCAL6gjZilK27TXAZielm5djcnHuh-7k/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div>