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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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