"Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused" by Zvi

If you are helping build something that might kill everyone, maybe stop doing that.

Ideally, when you do stop, tell everyone else to also stop building it.

That is certainly the obvious, first-level thing to do. You need a damn good reason to decide that no, actually you should keep building the thing that might kill everyone.

Scott Alexander is worried too many people are insisting upon this too loudly. He comes out against a strategy focused on getting people to stop. I disagree. ...