Do Not Accept

i’d really like to meet my daughter in june. i’d like to know what her first word will be and see her go to kindergarten and high school and have favorite books and unrequited crushes and songs she plays on repeat. it’s absurd to me that we ended up in a world where the big labs are all in some spider-man meme standoff in which everyone acknowledges that what they’re doing has a substantial chance of killing us but nobody will stop. i’m angry that they’re spending significantly more resources on building a self-detonating nuke than they are on trying to coordinate a global pause on development. i’m angry that everyone i’ve ever known might die because a few thousand people are knowingly pursuing something this reckless.