You don't want competing nations or groups to be able to beat you up because you didn't act. But at the same time, these tools are being deployed against us, re

You don't want competing nations or groups to be able to beat you up because you didn't act. But at the same time, these tools are being deployed against us, replacing us, being used to track and manipulate us. There's a difference between staying out from under boot and laissez-faire letting a new tech harm your people. The analogy that comes to mind is weapons research: if weapons were regularly tested on civilians to accelerate the R&D, and to enrich huge corporations, yeah, don't call us luddites for being unhappy about it