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>Bioweapons and RSI are pie-in-the-sky theories that distract from the real-world situation

It wasn't long ago when automated hacking was a pie-in-the-sky theory.

Sometimes it's helpful to prepare for things in advance. An ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure.

But hacking has always been a vulnerability, even pre-AI. The scale multiplier here is the number of vulnerable machines, not the intelligence of AI.

> An ounce of prevention can be worth a pound of cure.

It can be, but if you get chemotherapy on a hunch instead of a diagnosis then it could kill you instead. There is no evidence that RSI will ever exist.

>There is no evidence that RSI will ever exist.

So we wait until it's actively happening to do anything about it?

Yeah. Do you think we should regulate Red Mercury just in case someone figures out how to build a nuke with it?

Red mercury and RSI are both science fiction psyops. They do not exist.

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