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And yet there has never been a single nuclear device used or tested by non state actors. Why? The answer is that anyone with the ability and resources has no i
by petermcneeley 3y ago
And yet there has never been a single nuclear device used or tested by non state actors. Why?
The answer is that anyone with the ability and resources has no incentive. If you are smart and driven enough to build a device you can certainly go out and get pretty good programming gig.
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- mjevans 3y agoA very solid argument for making emigration of productive workers easier.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> If you are smart and driven enough to build a device you can certainly go out and get pretty good programming gig. The job market/job opportunities for programmers is/are much worse in many other countries. Also consider that many programming jobs that exist are actually quite boring (think into the direction of implementing LoB applications in a department that is considered a cost center instead of profit center). In my experience, there exist not that many programming jobs that give satisfaction to highly smart people, and getting such a job often requires some very specific traits that are quite different from raw intelligence.
- krisoft 3y ago> there has never been a single nuclear device used or tested by non state actors. Why? Simple. Because to enrich the required materials you need a big operation which sticks out like a sore thumb. There are people actively looking for these with the intent to distrupt them. By the time you are big and sophisticated enough to evade these efforts you are basically a state actor in anything but maybe name.
- petermcneeley 3y agoI agree with you that this is certainly a challenge but I dont think this is an insurmountable obstacle for a very intelligent individual.
- fragmede 3y agoDavid Hahn respectfully disagrees
- petermcneeley 3y agoI respectfully disagree. David Hahn seems like a cool guy but in no way was he trying to make a device or was even close.