If and when it makes sense to halt or ban R&D, the ban should be either narrow or temporary.
I think the counterexample of nuclear engineering is instructive. It was not halted, but remains heavily regulated internationally, and for that reason, progress in nuclear power has been greatly slowed—but so has proliferation.
It was halted de facto if not de jure, at least in the US.
I think if it had not been stunted, we’d have lots of cheap, reliable, clean nuclear power, and I doubt that nuclear proliferation would have been significantly accelerated—do you think it would have been?
I think the counterexample of nuclear engineering is instructive. It was not halted, but remains heavily regulated internationally, and for that reason, progress in nuclear power has been greatly slowed—but so has proliferation.
It was halted de facto if not de jure, at least in the US.
I think if it had not been stunted, we’d have lots of cheap, reliable, clean nuclear power, and I doubt that nuclear proliferation would have been significantly accelerated—do you think it would have been?