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Counterpoint: How many cloned humans have we seen? Prohibition works when the barrier to entry is higher. Any mook with some yeast and sugar can make alcohol.
by moate 7y ago
Counterpoint: How many cloned humans have we seen?
Prohibition works when the barrier to entry is higher. Any mook with some yeast and sugar can make alcohol. Pot grows just about anywhere (which is why they call it weed). But not a lot of people are privately developing nuclear bombs or cloning humans.
- filoleg 7y agoArguably, the barrier to entry for facial recognition software (or almost any software, for that matter) is way lower than for developing nuclear bombs or cloning humans. Of course it won't be production level of big corps, but a group of less than 5 engineers can definitely hack up a facial recognition software that works fairly decently with only ramen money and a bit of AWS credits.