It is indeed how we treat each other.
Bill Joy's message is to limit information on future hazardous tech. I argued w. him in a seminar in '00 that won't be sufficient, like nuclear knowledge, it'll be used by bad guys in the gov't or rediscovered, even if you trust the gov't to keep such secrets, which history shows to be a fatal mistake.
So, the protection against the near-term elimination of the human race ends up being an all-out race to neutralize current and future threats, by all possible technical and diplomatic means. I.e., avoid creating new threats, publish voluminous knowledge of protection against threats, and learn to live together.
Our administration, of course, is doing exactly the opposite.
Joy suggested I take the counter-intuitive approach and go to DOD for project support, which I thought was nuts, but the surprise was there are people willing to research threat-neutralizing technologies for the use of the general public, at risk of their own careers.
Many in gov't are absolutely disgusted and terrified.
We probably have 20 years IMO to create the technical and diplomatic means to protect against small groups with ever-more powerful hazards, after which it's the "guess the plague of the month" game. |
