“Well, then, frankly, I worry about the potential for nation state, totalitarian, and technological abuse if this premise catches hold. It’s a tale told many times over that technology goes first to the powerful and that the number one response to power by the powerful is to hold on to their power as if their life depended on it. And the classic way to do that, going all the way back to oh, I don’t know, the primordial oceans, is to limit the degrees of freedom of any who stand in the way. This is single-celled warfare. This is global geopolitical warfare. It’s always about more or less
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