[acjohnson55]

You have vastly more faith in the ability of human society to manage these technologies than I do. The problem is not a question of whether the vast majority of actors will do the right thing the vast majority of the time. It's that very small groups of people can do incredible amounts of damage, on purpose or even just accidentally.

Given the horrors we've seen committed by large groups of people over protracted time frames, I absolutely believe horror magnified by technological leverage is inevitable.

Life is pretty great right now, but we are living in the aberration. I expect that I'll live to see the end of the equilibrium that has allowed this aberration to persist.