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Thu Mar 30 18:09:57 -03 2023
Considering the limited time most people have, this was written as a bullet list:
1. Given that the rhythm of current development is a premeditated catastrophe that is consuming the human and non-human life of the Earth, regardless of any novelty;
2. Given that development of AI systems are only the latest technocapitalist hype, and that the State is already armed with mass-destruction weapons for decades;
3. Given that more than a pause we need a full stop to a whole era;
4. Given that the most ill-intentioned agents will never act according to a call from the moral high ground, or yet, will pretend to;
5. Given that the most ill-intentioned investor in an AI system will see your pause simply as an excellent opportunity to go even faster;
6. Given that the rules of the games are rigged to their cores, and more than a single system, we are facing a mesh of disputes for power that is ripping the Earth of its life;
7. Given that it is meaningless that for a split second before midnight a few academics, technocrats and big names from the corporations and countries that built this devouring machine that they now want to simply "pause" seem to have heard the faint voice of their conscience;
8. Given that it is deeply saddening that what they heard from this whisper was the pathetic insight to take a break only to return to business as usual the next semester, or some morally improved version of the very same system under the very same project that has been carried out this far;
I ask for an infinite pause to capitalism and colonialism, and that it opens the doors to imagine new ways to organize our lives, and that we can indefinetly pause many other ways to create oppression to nobody's benefit.
Signatories,
Signatories list paused due to complete lack of infrastructure
Due to the complete lack of infrastructure, I am not accepting more signatures because I have no way to receive them in a way that safeguards my physical integrity in the world that we live in.
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