I wasn't very interested in exploring the criminal claim that is strongly focused on by commenters so far, perhaps the discussion would have been better if I'd only quoted the second half of the essay?

Models of how to add ideological payloads to new technologies should be very interesting to ambitious effective altruists or those concerned with the saftey of transhuman technology, I lose prediction points because I thought that this would be the thing driving discussion. Hoping to hear more thoughts or materials on it was what motivated me to open the topic.