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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by gustavus on Monday October 16, 2023 @06:45PM (#37907683)
If we get to the point where we are able to 3D print 20 MT nuclear weapons we've probably got replicators from star trek at that point living in a post scarcity society and then I will be 3D printing me a space ship to "Boldly go where no man has gone before."
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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by user_7832 on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:00PM (#37907855)
I'm not sure what the HN guidelines are for commenting about other comments but if your earlier comment was in jest/sarcasm, it might help to add an /s
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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by vasco on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:09PM (#37907944)
Or you could use your interpreting skills to detect it yourself.
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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by user_7832 on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:33PM (#37908115)
I unfortunately am not the best at detecting sarcasm in real life, and infinitely worse online. Anyway, it appears his comment is no longer flagged/dead.
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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by Brian_K_White on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:59PM (#37908907)
Wait, was THAT sarcasm? Because if you ask me saying that someone should be able to detect the true intent of the original comment MUST be sarcasm. But then I'm not so much detecting as deducing.
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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by snapplebobapple on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:18PM (#37908507)
Living in a world that is post scarcity on 20 MT nuclear weapons is kind of exciting while being terrifying. I hope we become a multisolar species before that happens because we will need to be able to lose a few when the above happens...
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Re:NY Bill Would Require Background Checks to Buy 3D Printers by williamcotton on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:59PM (#37908903)
See, now this is where I wanted the conversation to go! Reductio ad absurdum? Dial up the absurdity and it’s at least science fiction!

How far off is a consumer product that has been “locked down” but otherwise capable of printing devices of increasingly larger scales of destruction?

Are we not already on this trajectory?

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