SLX:00021 / SOURCE-BACKED RECORDgovernance / abundance / economics
Archived term · Independent editorial record
Precautionary Scarcity
noun
Archive definition
The suppression of productive capacity out of fear of concentrated power, treating reduced progress as protection rather than addressing who controls the resulting abundance.
An illustration · hypothetical
A hypothetical policy blocks a broadly useful technology because its benefits might be controlled by a few actors, without considering ways to distribute those benefits.
Editorial reading
Alex distinguishes the ability to produce abundance from authority over its use. His argument is that preventing domination should not require preventing capacity itself, whether the capacity is capital or intelligence.
Captured source language
“The shared error is confusing capacity with control.”
