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Given the history of weaponization it would be illogical to worry about 'bad guys' instead we should be worried about the US Government.



Nuclear annihilation didn't happen because a few countries showed some restraint. In the coming decades, the capability of manufacturing deadly agents will be shifted to individual people. In fact, one could argue this is already happening. So our future will most likely be impacted by the behavior of billions of people, most of which could take a serious stab at causing mass casualties if they actually wanted. To top it off, this shift of capabilities to the individual will have a probably small but considerable chance of ending our civilization outright. This is absolutely something to worry about.


Probably time to give individuals similar sovereignty to nations. Likely what will occur, similar to nuclear proliferation, is that individuals will probably realize that the only way to achieve sovereignty similar to nations is by developing these sorts of technologies.

Congrats to the prepressive nations who are incentivizing the development of these technologies by being opressive.




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