"any kind of decentralized, democratic or liberal political structure thrives best when defense is easy, and suffers the most challenge when defense is hard - in those cases, the far more likely outcome is some period of war of all against all, and eventually an equilibrium of rule by the strongest."
A good (but long) blog post on focusing our collective efforts on developing defensive technologies to slant the future away from dystopia.
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html
Thanks Josh (npub1yl8…vz34) for the link!
