Re:John A Phillips
by midoridensha on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:13AM
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>I’d rather think it’s better to identify ways to build such things and prevent wide scale adoption in a reasonable way.
But how do you do that? Suppose some new physics are discovered, and this makes it trivially easy to build a doomsday bomb using readily-available materials that simply can't be restricted.
>Locking up people and burying the evidence is a short term solution.
Unfortunately, yes: if it gets to my scenario above, it's probably just a matter of time.
>Building ways of resilience and to be able to thwart or diffuse such bombs or to make laws which make it harder to extract raw materials seems a good long term solution to think about.
Again, in my scenario, anyone with half a brain can easily build the doomsday bomb using stuff from the grocery store. We're not talking about plutonium here, we're talking about very common materials. How do you stop the world from being destroyed?
But how do you do that? Suppose some new physics are discovered, and this makes it trivially easy to build a doomsday bomb using readily-available materials that simply can't be restricted.
>Locking up people and burying the evidence is a short term solution.
Unfortunately, yes: if it gets to my scenario above, it's probably just a matter of time.
>Building ways of resilience and to be able to thwart or diffuse such bombs or to make laws which make it harder to extract raw materials seems a good long term solution to think about.
Again, in my scenario, anyone with half a brain can easily build the doomsday bomb using stuff from the grocery store. We're not talking about plutonium here, we're talking about very common materials. How do you stop the world from being destroyed?