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Re:Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressin... by arisAlexis on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:50PM (#36273652)
You know, when nuclear bombs were made and Einstein and Oppenheimer knew about the dangers etc, there were common people like you that dismissed it all. This has been going on for centuries. Inventors and experts and scientists and geniuses say A and common people say nah, B. Well, Bengio, Hinton, Ilya and 350 others from the top AI labs disagree with you. Does it ever make you wonder if you should be so cock sure or this attitude can doom humanity? Curious
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Re:Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressin... by RandomLensman on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:16PM (#36275195)
Common people thought nuclear weapons not dangerous? When was that?
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Re:Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressin... by arisAlexis on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:00AM (#36278618)
Many of the academics and physicists (aka software developer in this example) thought nukes are impossible. Look it up)
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Re:Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressin... by defrost on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:08AM (#36278653)
US physicists largely thought they were infeasible, sure.

They were focused on power generation.

But the bulk of world physicists ( the MAUD committee et el ) thought they were feasible to construct and the Australian Oliphant convinced the US crowd of that.

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