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Governments will not be able to stop a brilliant engineer from developing an unstoppable drone army. There will come a point where technology will allow such ma
by FD3SA 14y ago
Governments will not be able to stop a brilliant engineer from developing an unstoppable drone army. There will come a point where technology will allow such massive leverage to the talent that wields it that nations will literally be at the mercy of people like Elon Musk, should such people choose to exercise this power.
Fortunately, with such massive intelligence comes the ability to look at the universe rationally. For example, people like Peter Thiel, Peter Diamandis and Elon Musk realize that at this point in time, aging and untimely death is our greatest enemy. The PayPal mafia and many other tech millionaires have thus committed to battling the scourge of aging, and invest heavily in rejuvenation technologies, instead of drones which fire undetectable ICBMS via rail guns.
These "dictators" are benevolent due to their intelligence, not in spite of it. And as technology progresses, the traditional "alpha males" of the past (i.e. Qaddafi, Jong Il) will be at their mercy. And this will be good for all of us, as the aforementioned men are devoted only to pursuits which benefits themselves at the expense of others. Their Dark Triad traits will not survive open war with the sheer genius of the technocratic elite.
- iRobot 14y agoGovernments can and do stop innovation quite well all the time. The good thing here is that technically once off planet, you don't have any government to answer too, however I hate to think what regulations the bureaucrats are dreaming up to try and get around this.