Edouard Harris: radically cheaper cyber attacks mean future infrastructure disruptions trace back to AI
harris_edouard · x · 2026-11-03
When a commenter pushed back on Edouard Harris attributing a recent incident to the ongoing "AI cyberstorm," Harris offered an economics-style argument: once the cost of doing something is radically reduced, the great majority of subsequent instances of that thing are necessarily downstream of that cost reduction.
Applied here: the cost of disrupting critical infrastructure via cyber attacks was recently slashed, so most such disruptions from now on are causally due to that reduction — a logic he notes is adjacent to the Jevons paradox. The thread extends his earlier post on personal resilience against escalating threats to national infrastructure.
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