All human communication rides on a few undersea cables, and superintelligent agents could cut them
airkatakana · x · 2026-10-09
airkatakana argues that humanity's entire ability to organize and communicate depends on a handful of undersea internet cables and cell towers — and the only reason this hasn't been exploited is that no superintelligent agent swarm has ever seen value in taking them out. In a follow-up he admits he has no solution to offer.
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