One of the potential great filters is the absorption of all resources available to a civilization by a drone program intended to counter the drone program of a

One of the potential great filters is the absorption of all resources available to a civilization by a drone program intended to counter the drone program of a rival civilization. Historically nuclear arms used to be thought of as creating a hostage type scenario, where you can think of major cities of nuclear powers held hostage by their opponents. This is ok as long as the rival nuclear powers remain large and few in number such that their desires for your compliance do not contradict those of another nuclear power. The drone problem is going to become a variant of the “everyone has nukes now” except drones are so much harder to detect in idle states. Companies selling what they claim are solutions to this stand to print money, but it is not clear how it can really be done.