The topic was gain of function research and the inevitable use of AI and biotech to create deadly disease even targeting individuals.
Tucker gets hyperbolic sometimes, but I don't think even literally it's a crazy proposition.
Technology gives individuals more power, so ultimately our only options are preventing any individuals from exercising that power or regressing technology or extinction.
For some context, anybody today with a few thousand dollars and some talent can print smallpox into a live virus. Future is going to get crazy.
Yep. The only solution is to roll back technology and prevent it going too far again by having informed societies and forcibly stopping others from transgressing certain boundaries
Yes and the risk isn't just corrupt corporations, but our enemies overseas. Places that aren't far behind us along within the tech tree figuring out how to use this power for evil rather than good.
Also have to consider places in Europe that are about to collapse into Islam inheriting all this power without having contributed to it at all. Not just nuclear arsonals but everything
The topic was gain of function research and the inevitable use of AI and biotech to create deadly disease even targeting individuals.
Tucker gets hyperbolic sometimes, but I don't think even literally it's a crazy proposition.
Technology gives individuals more power, so ultimately our only options are preventing any individuals from exercising that power or regressing technology or extinction.
For some context, anybody today with a few thousand dollars and some talent can print smallpox into a live virus. Future is going to get crazy.
Yep. The only solution is to roll back technology and prevent it going too far again by having informed societies and forcibly stopping others from transgressing certain boundaries
See:
The Butlerian Jihad
I read that whole thing.
Dune > Star Wars
Yes and the risk isn't just corrupt corporations, but our enemies overseas. Places that aren't far behind us along within the tech tree figuring out how to use this power for evil rather than good.
Also have to consider places in Europe that are about to collapse into Islam inheriting all this power without having contributed to it at all. Not just nuclear arsonals but everything