"“We are spreading the dark side of technology,” he tells the FT, describing the “curse of dual use” where, in biotechnology and development of superhuman intelligence in particular, scientists may inadvertently be sowing the seeds of future destruction to be wrought by anarchists or revolutionary groups."
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It's not anarchists you need to be concerned about. It's the state.
I maintain that the combination of government and advanced technology yields only two possible outcomes: The total enslavement of the human population, or the destruction of the planet --as groups vie for control over the enslaved population.
I can't demonstrate this, but I suspect there is a mathematical proof within game theory.
The species has advanced to a point where either the system adopts a new structure to accomodate the more highly energetic informational state, or the system destroys itself.
That new structure, I suspect, is market-based. But it surely is not founded on a central authority.
The state is going away. This change in the nature of political structures is necessitated, as usual, by technological considerations. If the development of this new order is frustrated, then the species dies --either in its physical form or in its nature.
It's really that simple.
But the parasites of the world will have none of it, because forcibly extracting energy from the endeavors of the people is made impossible in the absence of the state.
