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@epictittus @thefinn @Jewpacabra @wingedhussar @SK1ZM @Escoffier @BowsacNoodle yes, "democratization of force" is part of the answer; if regular people have force-parity with those 20 dudes on Squeal Team Six, then their ability to project that power returns to "feudal" levels

how does that happen, though? the pathway from "here" to "there" is murky

part of it seems to be the proliferation of "maker" communities; they are by definition a series of dual-use technologies, and they get better all the time

part of it is Moore's law and part of it is open-source software (and particularly AI models); these leverage the forces of commoditization, and you wind up with things like "low-cost drone swarms" that are fieldable using "dedicated individual" levels of capital

the big sticking point appears to be what we will euphemistically refer to as "energetic compounds"; minus those, drones are toys, and the production pipelines for such things are subject to rather a lot of scrutiny

I have the feeling that the first anon who drops a process diagram and parts list to construct the first open-source nitration machine (starting from the Haber process) will be more momentous and have a larger social effect than Satoshi Nakamoto