Strong magnets in/around your house to pull in the kill-ticks? EMP? This assumes the kill-ticks are made of metal, and are not biological in nature, which is a guess.
For bio-kill-ticks, maybe some kind of static electricity, such that every time you touch anything you feel a zap. Should be essentially harmless to humans, but might kill a bio-kill-tick?
For actual kill-microbes, I think we’re just doomed. Look at how bad a job we do defending against natural bacteria and viruses. Intelligent murder-bacteria would be the end of our species.
In general I find it hard to imagine a future where people have to wear fishing waders to ward off robot-tick bites, where humanity has not simply been obliterated. This scenario seems to fall into the same very narrow band as most sci-fi movies, where there could be things like humans fighting robots with assault rifles. Probably we either have an aligned superintelligence on our side helping us, or we’re cooked.
I completely agree that, without a country of aligned geniuses in a datacenter, we’re dead. But I still think we should try to predict what dangers we’ll face. I’d classify murder-bacteria as a known threat; for example, Anthropic talks about bioweapon capabilities. What do unknown threats look like?
Strong magnets in/around your house to pull in the kill-ticks? EMP? This assumes the kill-ticks are made of metal, and are not biological in nature, which is a guess.
For bio-kill-ticks, maybe some kind of static electricity, such that every time you touch anything you feel a zap. Should be essentially harmless to humans, but might kill a bio-kill-tick?
For actual kill-microbes, I think we’re just doomed. Look at how bad a job we do defending against natural bacteria and viruses. Intelligent murder-bacteria would be the end of our species.
In general I find it hard to imagine a future where people have to wear fishing waders to ward off robot-tick bites, where humanity has not simply been obliterated. This scenario seems to fall into the same very narrow band as most sci-fi movies, where there could be things like humans fighting robots with assault rifles. Probably we either have an aligned superintelligence on our side helping us, or we’re cooked.
I completely agree that, without a country of aligned geniuses in a datacenter, we’re dead. But I still think we should try to predict what dangers we’ll face. I’d classify murder-bacteria as a known threat; for example, Anthropic talks about bioweapon capabilities. What do unknown threats look like?