PeakBagger
SNA BDCP Applicant
The developers working on all of these are SF CS nerds, the theater kids of STEM personality wise. They're going to overhype everything because it makes them feel all powerful and gives them the attention that they've desperately craved their entire lives. The activists are hardly trustworthy, people have been claiming that BMD would lead to preemptive strikes since Nike-Zeus and yet Moscow and DC are both still here. The only guaranteed existential threat at this point is in 500 million to 1.5 billion years, the technology is important but unless the United States or China decides to use it to build Sundial we're fine. I'd be more concerned about what's going to happen if the productivity gains don't justify the current spending, it's a good chunk of GDP growth right now.