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I understand. However, in the climate of the nuclear arms race, I think that all projects having anything to do with nuclear physics were likely to be kept und
by opello 1y ago
I understand. However, in the climate of the nuclear arms race, I think that all projects having anything to do with nuclear physics were likely to be kept under tight wraps.
The comment I replied to seems to be taking a snarky tone toward a comment that was interesting and furthering the actual topic of the post. By highlighting that it didn't take a stance:
> one of the creators wasn't aware the immediate application of the algorithms they were optimizing was nuclear weapons
Even your reply to me seems to only allow interpreting "application ... was nuclear weapons" to mean "building" or "developing" instead of "detecting" when to me it simply means "in the domain of." And certainly you agree that detection is in the space of nuclear weapons?
The obvious reason detection technology falls under the same secrecy umbrella as weapons design is because one leads quite quickly to the other if you start to think about why it might be developed.
- adastra22 1y agoTo me at least it would very clearly mean building or developing. “In the domain of” would require explicit clarification.
- opello 1y agoRight. And I think that's an unnecessarily narrow perspective to take.
- adastra22 1y agoJust letting you know as a native speaker, that’s what the words mean to your audience.
- opello 1y agoAs a native speaker I disagree with the unnecessarily narrow interpretation. It may be the simpler conclusion to reach but with the accompanying material it is obviously not the intent.