alt Hacker News>On the other, the complexity of everything and the amount of technical capability an individual or small group can wield has never been higher.
This, too, has basically always been true at every point in time across history.
>On the other, the complexity of everything and the amount of technical capability an individual or small group can wield has never been higher.
This, too, has basically always been true at every point in time across history.
> This, too, has basically always been true at every point in time across history.
1 person, right now, could launch a large enough portion of the worlds nuclear arsenal to cause a near simultaneous response of the also nuclear kind, immediately wiping out the bulk of the human population, infrastructure, food, educational institutions, factories, housing, transportation and shipping, etc and effectively dooming much of the remaining population.
That's comparatively new over the past 20k years of human history.