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Could this become like other cheap, easy to manufacture societal disruptions like drugs - solution being: make them illegal.
by r00fus 6y ago
Could this become like other cheap, easy to manufacture societal disruptions like drugs - solution being: make them illegal.
- whatshisface 6y agoSomeone should write a book set in a science fiction dystopia where you have to apply for a specific permit to construct any device or write any software (lest you make a drone or a singularity AI), and where machine tools are carefully controlled and limited to regularly inspected industrial facilities.
- webmaven 6y ago> Someone should write a book set in a science fiction dystopia where you have to apply for a specific permit to construct any device or write any software (lest you make a drone or a singularity AI), and where machine tools are carefully controlled and limited to regularly inspected industrial facilities. Something like RMS' story, The Right to Read?: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html