Centralising defence against proliferating destructive technology (the "small kills all" trap) creates a second trap: a world authority strong enough to watch everyone becomes a single point of failure, the prize in a race to capture it, and is still made of individuals who can be extorted. The book cites Hanson's best guess that this temptation is the Great Filter.

Evidence 3 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  The temptation to create powerful central coordination, for instance to solve small kills all risks from the proliferation of technologies is robin hansen's best guess for the great filter

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  whenever we create an opportunity to have power, we create competition for it. The greater the power, the greater the race to capture it, and the less likely that competitors will all have purely good intentions.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  It may only be a question of time until one of the seven billion active players seeks a large-scale civilization destruction and can acquire the technology to cause it.

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