> Don't forget that it would also increase the power of the good guys.
In a free society, preventing and undoing a bioweapon attack or a pandemic is much harder than committing it.
> And considering that our default fate is extinction (by Sun's death if no other means) - we need all the good we can get to avoid that.
“In the long run we are all dead" -- Keynes. But an AGI will likely emerge in the next 5 to 20 years (Geoffrey Hinton said the same) and we'd rather not be dead too soon.
In a free society, preventing and undoing a bioweapon attack or a pandemic is much harder than committing it.
> And considering that our default fate is extinction (by Sun's death if no other means) - we need all the good we can get to avoid that.
“In the long run we are all dead" -- Keynes. But an AGI will likely emerge in the next 5 to 20 years (Geoffrey Hinton said the same) and we'd rather not be dead too soon.