Let's hope it's a lot harder than you think to reach step three. If we ever reach a point where a lone actor can destroy humanity, we're pretty well screwed. You would have to ensure that 100% of the people with that ability didn't want to use it 100% of the time.
I'm hopeful that once technology like gene editing that has that potential is so cheap and easy that a significant fraction of the people can do it, the same technology that enables them to create killer viruses also enables everyone else to cure them more effectively.
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Let's hope it's a lot harder than you think to reach step three. If we ever reach a point where a lone actor can destroy humanity, we're pretty well screwed. You would have to ensure that 100% of the people with that ability didn't want to use it 100% of the time.
Luckily the number of people who want to exterminate all of humanity seems to be rather low.
Which just leaves the people who want to exterminate part of humanity.
I'm hopeful that once technology like gene editing that has that potential is so cheap and easy that a significant fraction of the people can do it, the same technology that enables them to create killer viruses also enables everyone else to cure them more effectively.