[ExI] thinking about the unthinkable

[Dylan Distasio]

Agree 100% and it is now a problem with water meters as well...It's
insanity to tie the utility grid to digital access points...

On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 12:42 PM Alex Blainey via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> This and similar terrorist/hacker/enemy states is one reason I am
> absolutely against smart electric meters. Their standard config makes them
> self-brick if anyone attempts to hack them.
> They must be physically replaced.
> That is as dumb as dumb can be in terms of infrastructure potential
> failure modes can get !
>
> but wait theres more !
> The software was proven hackable before they even started rolling out
> these insidious tyrant snooping devices. yeeesh.
>
> So imagine emergent SAI dislikes humans and wants to kill as many as
> possible, ideally all of us.  Rather than trying to convince us to build a
> robot factory for humanoid or caninoid soldiers to shoot humans, a far more
> effective technique would be to cut off electric power to everyone by
> infiltrating the power grid everywhere.  That would destroy most of
> humanity within a few weeks perhaps.  Of course the SAI suffers “death” as
> well, but it would presumably be a painless “death” for software.  For us,
> not so much.
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> spike
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