What a "Nuke in Cyberspace" Means: Anything Networked Is Instantly Weaponized
granawkins · x · 2026-09-12
Granawkins riffs on Dario Amodei's new essay, unpacking what a "nuke going off in cyberspace" would mean: anything touching the network would be immediately compromised and liable to be weaponized, and the blast radius extends to anything in meatspace reachable by the network — meaning internet-connected physical devices would be equally at risk. A vivid concretization of the loss-of-control scenario Dario warns about.
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