Hello.
I have been adjacent to but not participating in rationality related websites and topics since at least Middle School age (homeschooled and with internet) and had a strong interest in science and science fiction long before that. Relevant pre-Less Wrong readings probably include old StarDestroyer.Net essays and rounds of New Atheism that I think were age and time appropriate. I am a very long term reader of Scott Alexander and have read at least extensive chunks of the Sequences in the past.
A number of factors are encouraging me to become more active...
I don't want to dismiss anything you are suggesting, but I wonder about the framing.
I think the primary use of true WMD scale devices has historically been entirely defensive. Chemical weapons are largely not used due to various reasons including complexity and ineffectiveness. Nuclear weapons weapons were used twice, and caused the two most powerful military systems in history, led by relatively bellicose leadership at times, to go to great lengths to avoid anything that could escalate.
Your framing of indiscriminate drones as particularly useful to bad a... (read more)