that choice -- he referred to similasamuel butler's novel, the choice of a science fiction novel about a society developing sophisticated machines and decides they don't want to be taken over, they want to have control of their world taken by the machines so they banned machines, they destroyed all the machines in a terrible war before with the pro machine and answer machine. and now machines only exist in museums. but that is completely infeasible for the reason that rich mentioned. if we have super intelligent a.i. and use it well, that tenfold increase in gdp is conservative and it means giving everyone access to the same level of technology and quality of life that we have in berkeley. not sci-fi or eternal life or light travel. that tenfold increase in gdp is bringing everyone up to a decent standard of living and worth about 10 - $20 quadrillion. that is creating the momentum and saying we will be on a.i., it's clea completely infeasible. not to mention the and i unlike nuclear energy or crystal babies, a.i. perceives by people writing formulas on whiteboards. you cannot ban the