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We used to until quite recently. Anybody could buy dynamite at the hardware store. We had to end this because of criminals using it to hurt people.
by mikkupikku 7mo ago
We used to until quite recently. Anybody could buy dynamite at the hardware store. We had to end this because of criminals using it to hurt people.
- jqpabc123 7mo agoLook for AI to follow a similar trajectory over time.
- GaryBluto 7mo agoImpossible at this point. You cannot download dynamite.
- mikkupikku 7mo agoYes, regulation is inevitable.
- jfengel 7mo agoRegulation is impossible. The AI barons literally control the federal government, so not even state regulations get tried.
- jfengel 7mo agoExcept this time the criminals are police.
- AngryData 7mo agoThey are far more often than anyone wants to admit. That's how we got 25% of the world's prison population.
- rootusrootus 7mo agoAFAIK the actual cause for our high incarceration rate is that we have longer sentences. The conviction rate, for example, as compared to the UK is similar.
- suzzer99 7mo agoI admit I was surprised to see you could buy dynamite in a hardware store until 1970.
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- kbelder 7mo agoI remember my Dad yelling at me to "put the dynamite back in the truck" when I was a kid.