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Society already criminalizes disseminating information, such as national security secrets, and nuclear weapons technology. Though information itself wants to b
by mushufasa 8y ago
Society already criminalizes disseminating information, such as national security secrets, and nuclear weapons technology.
Though information itself wants to be free, I am very much in favor of increasing friction for world-ending technologies like nuclear weapons.
There was a good documentary on 3D printing guns a few years ago where the plastics were essentially good for a few rounds and then wear out. They've improved since then, and will keep improving.
Plastics don't need to compete directly with metal to be formidable.
- DuskStar 8y ago>Society already criminalizes disseminating information, such as ... nuclear weapons technology Have you ever heard of the Nth Country Experiment? Keep in mind that this was conducted in the 1960s. Suffice to say, designing a nuclear weapon is not a problem. Neither is manufacturing one. The difficulty lies in obtaining sufficient nuclear material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment
- GW150914 8y agoIf all you care about is a low-yield, wasteful, heavy bomb? Yes. If you want an advanced dial-a-yield thermonuclear device capable of leveling a city, and fitting on a missile? Not so much.
- mygo 8y ago> information itself wants to be free That never made sense to me. Information desiring something of itself would imply that information is sentient. I think it is people who want information to be free. And not all people want that, at least for not all information.