This is called a governor. It lowers the fuel supply to a steam engine when it starts speeding up, thus ensuring a steady speed. We need a governor mechanism for technological progress.
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This would stop the currently exponential pace of growth from outpacing what society, and regulation, can adapt to. Thus avoiding the inevitable crash that will happen when we lose control of the exponentially accelerating train of technology, and it flies off the rails.
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