but if people think the software can't be changed because distributed social consensus, I can point to a thousand things that changed because of distributed social consensus.
Under-rated point. The entire bitcoin ecosystem depends on understanding this point, in fact.
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The terrifying nature is that because it happens slowly, it is not a visible threat on most peoples radar.
Just saw the new Dune movie, and this makes me think of the cool way Frank Herbert made it so you could still have sword / knife fighting in this future universe: there's a shielding tech that soaks up plasma weapons, and things that move quickly like projectile weapons. So what's left is kick-ass hand-to-hand combat. Nice hack.
Maybe there's a similar kind of 'attack' like you describe -- slow enough to get past the shields of more kinetic assaults.
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