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Nuclear Proliferation and the "Nth Country Experiment"
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- qingcharles 2y agoIt took 3 years to build a weapon design from scratch. I wonder how long it would take now using an abliterated LLM? A week?
- IncreasePosts 2y agoMaybe a week. Or maybe after a week you end up with a nice batch of chocolate chip cookies.
- andrewflnr 2y ago"As a large language model, I cannot provide you with a design for a nuclear weapon. How about some nice cookies to bring to the diplomatic table? Eating together helps people form bonds of friendship. In past negotiations, this cookie recipe has helped smoothed over..."
- fooker 2y agoThe weapon is the easy part. Doable by most countries nowadays given enough enriched U235. The only slightly difficult thing is the trigger system, for which you can find measurements and designs online. But the deliver system is a whole different story. Missiles and jet engines are much more difficult to develop from scratch. That’s why non-proliferation focuses on preventing countries from enriching Uranium and preventing countries from developing rocket booster technology.
- mkoubaa 2y agoI also thought the Oppenheimer movie was stupid
- bigfatkitten 2y agoGiven how often LLMs hallucinate answers about relatively trivial questions where all of the material is in the public domain, I'd say quite a while.