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Practically everyone on Earth is a potential target for someone. Development is easy and cheap. Barriers to entry are low. States will be disincentivized to use them against their own citizens, but non-state actors will have no such reluctance. Anyone who has a leakable or public identity, is a member of any group that another group would want killed, and lives within 50 miles of a major roadway has a slaughterbot or two with their name on it.
We have two things we can hope for. One is a swift and decisive global takeover of cyberspace by the Chinese, ushering in a socialist transition around the world where we cooperate as interdependent peoples. The other is sweet sweet technological collapse where maybe we manage to live in cob complexes, do a permaculture or two, practice holistic medicine centered around herbalism, and retain enough metallurgy to have bicycles.
We cannot hope to win this race.
Practically everyone on Earth is a potential target for someone. Development is easy and cheap. Barriers to entry are low. States will be disincentivized to use them against their own citizens, but non-state actors will have no such reluctance. Anyone who has a leakable or public identity, is a member of any group that another group would want killed, and lives within 50 miles of a major roadway has a slaughterbot or two with their name on it.
We have two things we can hope for. One is a swift and decisive global takeover of cyberspace by the Chinese, ushering in a socialist transition around the world where we cooperate as interdependent peoples. The other is sweet sweet technological collapse where maybe we manage to live in cob complexes, do a permaculture or two, practice holistic medicine centered around herbalism, and retain enough metallurgy to have bicycles.