Re:Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is re...
by pixl97 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:45PM
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The drug wars are not because we can't produce enough drugs. I'm pretty sure we can grow enough poppies to kill all of humanity a few times over and at an insanely cheap price.
Carfentanil is a decent example of this. It's insanely potent and even a small amount smuggled in goes a long way.
Such a bottle's contents can be trivially duplicated and the whole process is essentially the same as the first steps in brewing beer.
Doing it for cocaine is simpler than doing it for insulin, which is in one university a second-year exercise. I don't think it'll be that long before this happens.