[QAPereo]

I wouldn’t sell NBC weapons short... at least not the B and N parts. Nukes are dangerous in the hands of nations, but my god you just wait until every asshole with a laptop and $10,000 worth of equipment can customize their own plague. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re close, and regulating that is going to be utterly impossible.

It’s possible to exist in a relative detente between nations, but when the capacity to end human civilization is democratized we are dead. Many forms of incredible tech are really maturing, and frankly our laws are a century or more behind. We’re in real trouble if we have to wait to be burned to believe in the fire this time.

Unfortunately it seems that most of the smartest people are desperately trying to strike it rich, and that’s just about all. Even most of the people who want to make a difference only feel they can/should after making “fuck you money.”