[ExI] How vulnerable is the world?

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:45 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Bostrom admits that he doesn't know that these "black balls" exist, but he
> also says that it is unreasonable to assume that they don't. He is not
> arguing that point. He wants to start a discussion about what society
> should do about more powerful tech becoming available to more and more
> people / nations.
>

What *can* be done? We've tried to contain nuclear technology but the sheer
difficulty of implementation has done more to slow its adoption. If
something inexpensive like CRISPR is a black ball, how could it be
contained?

-Dave
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