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Re:Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US by ben_w on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:09AM (#16911064)
Remote monitoring nuclear reactors for signs of weapons development: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/593/1/01...

Communication through any obstacles, including (in principle) the entire diameter of the planet: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

Re:Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US by mjfl on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:31AM (#16911146)
Considering we have already have cheap things to detect nuclear proliferation, such as seismic detectors that have proven effective w/ North Korea and how expensive a neutrino detection system would be to build, I don't see any marginal benefit to humanity there. Considering the fact that you would need to build a beamline for any transmission of a neutrino message and a 5 ton detector to receive it (unlikely to be reduced since it's so hard to stop neutrinos) I'll stick with my > 50 year timeline for neutrino message passing being used in any practical sense. Maybe they could put it in a nuclear sub, but the design process would take 50 years, thanks to similar incentives built into the military industrial complex.
Re:Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US by ben_w on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:05AM (#16911275)
Seismic can only detect an explosion. Neutrino can detect the construction. If the threat comes from someone who has reactors and already knows how to make bombs, seismic is too late.

A 5 ton detector isn’t particularly implausible in a whole range of scenarios.

Eat up. :)

Re:Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US by mjfl on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:55AM (#16911459)
Still waiting...
Re:Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US by FridgeSeal on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:31PM (#16917233)
Someone literally just provided you with an explanation of a possible application, you can't just dismiss their comment because you don't like it.