<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:45 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Bostrom admits that he doesn't know that these "black balls" exist, but he<br>
also says that it is unreasonable to assume that they don't. He is not<br>
arguing that point. He wants to start a discussion about what society<br>
should do about more powerful tech becoming available to more and more<br>
people / nations.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>