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No, but one thing is certain, in large human systems you can only redirect greed, you can't stop it.

This is true. We have a choice...in principle.

But in practice, it's like stopping an arms race.

Which arms race? The nuclear arms race of the Cold War? That one got stopped.

It's hard to say the nuclear arms race is stopped when the US actively bombed a countries nuclear processing plants recently, and the US is also talking about building the Golden dome.

If the incentive is there, the technology will advance. I hear "we need to slow down the progress of technology", but that's misunderstanding _why_ it progresses. I'm assuming the slow down camp really need to look into what's the incentive to slow down.

Personally I don't think it's possible at this stage. The cat's out of the bag (this new class of tools are working) the economic incentive is way too strong.