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Incidentally, I don't like living in a country where some yahoo can pack a truck with explosives, but here we are.

nitrogen 6y ago
Unfortunately the laws of physics and chemistry work everywhere. We have to solve this kind of problem at the human level.
- ackbar03 6y ago
  says nitrogen
- fairity 6y ago
  > We have to solve this kind of problem at the human level. As technology accelerates, it's going to become easier and easier for a crazy person to inflict massive damage. With a knife, you can only kill a few people. With a gun, you can only kill a few dozen people. With a bomb, you can only kill a few hundred people. Eventually, the only way to solve this problem will be mass surveillance.
  - adrianN 6y ago
    I think we're not at the point where mass surveillance is warranted. Hopefully it stays that way for a while longer.
  - hilbertseries 6y ago
    The Oklahoma City bombing was 25 years ago and a much larger bomb. I don’t really see the problems of bombs has gotten any worse, in the intermediate.
  - pessimizer 6y ago
    The real problem is that we are millenarians with memories like fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
  - AndrewBissell 6y ago
    > Eventually, the only way to solve this problem will be mass surveillance. We already have that, didn't seem to work in this case.
  - c22 6y ago
    But now you have two problems...
  - jcims 6y ago
    With a germ you can kill a few million people - https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning/gene-synthesis/geneart-gene-synthesis.html https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning... https://www.genscript.com/gene_synthesis.html https://www.genscript.com/gene_synthesis.html https://www.idtdna.com/pages/products/genes-and-gene-fragments/custom-gene-synthesis https://www.idtdna.com/pages/products/genes-and-gene-fragmen... https://www.genewiz.com/en/Public/Services/Gene-Synthesis https://www.genewiz.com/en/Public/Services/Gene-Synthesis If you want to see someone do cool stuff with the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4
thesausageking 6y ago
You're very, very, very unlikely to be killed by terrorism in the US. Since 1995, fewer than 3,500 people have died from terrorist attacks. More people than that died from COVID19 yesterday alone.
- refurb 6y ago
  Question. If we had two scenarios: 1. 300 people die each day from a random disease that didn’t exist the day before 2. 300 people die each day from a terrorist incident Are those equivalent problems in your mind? Are the long term consequences of each about the same?
  - tsimionescu 6y ago
    How is your hypothetical related to the facts before? The poster above was showing that more people die from Covid each day than have died from terrorism in a decade. Also, I would say that the disease would still be a bigger problem than the terrorism even in your scenario. Unknown diseases have unknown effects, and generally scale exponentially. Terrorism is not going to see an exponential explosion.
  - deleted 6y ago
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Unfortunately the laws of physics and chemistry work everywhere. We have to solve this kind of problem at the human level.

ackbar03 6y ago
says nitrogen
fairity 6y ago
> We have to solve this kind of problem at the human level. As technology accelerates, it's going to become easier and easier for a crazy person to inflict massive damage. With a knife, you can only kill a few people. With a gun, you can only kill a few dozen people. With a bomb, you can only kill a few hundred people. Eventually, the only way to solve this problem will be mass surveillance.
- adrianN 6y ago
  I think we're not at the point where mass surveillance is warranted. Hopefully it stays that way for a while longer.
- hilbertseries 6y ago
  The Oklahoma City bombing was 25 years ago and a much larger bomb. I don’t really see the problems of bombs has gotten any worse, in the intermediate.
- pessimizer 6y ago
  The real problem is that we are millenarians with memories like fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
- AndrewBissell 6y ago
  > Eventually, the only way to solve this problem will be mass surveillance. We already have that, didn't seem to work in this case.
- c22 6y ago
  But now you have two problems...
- jcims 6y ago
  With a germ you can kill a few million people - https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning/gene-synthesis/geneart-gene-synthesis.html https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning... https://www.genscript.com/gene_synthesis.html https://www.genscript.com/gene_synthesis.html https://www.idtdna.com/pages/products/genes-and-gene-fragments/custom-gene-synthesis https://www.idtdna.com/pages/products/genes-and-gene-fragmen... https://www.genewiz.com/en/Public/Services/Gene-Synthesis https://www.genewiz.com/en/Public/Services/Gene-Synthesis If you want to see someone do cool stuff with the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4

thesausageking 6y ago

You're very, very, very unlikely to be killed by terrorism in the US. Since 1995, fewer than 3,500 people have died from terrorist attacks. More people than that died from COVID19 yesterday alone.

refurb 6y ago
Question. If we had two scenarios: 1. 300 people die each day from a random disease that didn’t exist the day before 2. 300 people die each day from a terrorist incident Are those equivalent problems in your mind? Are the long term consequences of each about the same?
- tsimionescu 6y ago
  How is your hypothetical related to the facts before? The poster above was showing that more people die from Covid each day than have died from terrorism in a decade. Also, I would say that the disease would still be a bigger problem than the terrorism even in your scenario. Unknown diseases have unknown effects, and generally scale exponentially. Terrorism is not going to see an exponential explosion.
- deleted 6y ago
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