How could armed citizens possibly resist oppression by a tyrannical state if it has tanks and an air force? Because it's very hard to win high-dimensional games. — “In regular 2d chess for instance, achieving checkmate generally requires attacking the opponent's king in 2 ways simultaneously. The king can't move. But in 3d, the king might be able to escape vertically, so you'd generally need three simultaneous attacks to achieve checkmate. Defending against checkmates gets easier, achieving checkmates gets harder…in the age of cyberwarfare, which is so highly asymmetric, a small team of state-sponsored hackers could use the NotPetya ransomware to bloodlessly bring huge multi-national corporations to their knees and cause billions of dollars of damage.”
Altman at 17.14 asks a question about UFOs showing he takes the topic seriously.