do we really need to encourage people to go into this line of work with language like this: >A long list of almost superhuman technical feats illustrate Equati

do we really need to encourage people to go into this line of work with language like this: >A long list of almost superhuman technical feats illustrate Equation Group's extraordinary skill, painstaking work, and unlimited resources. with the effort these people spend contributing next to zero value in the world (strongly negative value if you add up all the energy wasted on all sides including their 'enemies'; if all these sides spent the same resources on positive constructive research instead, we would be ahead). This genius could be applied to making a compiler/interpreter that just does what you're trying to do, regardless of whether you're a programmer. it's a binary choice: have these people perform 'superhuman' feats of self-destruction and obfuscated encryption and finding zero-days.... ... or give humanity the tools that every one of the seven billion people on it can instantiate any idea in seconds and have it actually be correctly interpreted and done. Resources are spent tricking people so they don't notice something. Where are the resources being spent helping people do what they're trying to? The example I always go to is: since the creation of the United States, how much inter-state (Iowa and Massachusetts) spying, warmaking, border control, etc, is wasted? Could this have something to do with its performance over the last couple of centuries? I think of these types of programs as 'welfare for geniuses'. give them an office and something to do. but for God's sake, spit them out again. The optimal amount of state spying is, let's face it, much closer to zero than its current levels. Spend on enough universal education that everyone shares values and nobody is destructive; put the rest into fundamental research and development. I don't mind that the government exists to do research, employ people, and keep the world safe. But put some limits on it, and please don't encourage this with language like I quoted at the top. humanity has better things to do with its time. nobody wants to live in a prison.