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Daniel_Newby
on Sept 7, 2012
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FBI launches $1 billion face recognition project
Once you can download an isotope separator or a plague kit, privacy concerns become moot. The societies not running under total AI supervision will simply go extinct. So the question is what
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of supervised society do you want?
lifeisstillgood
on Sept 7, 2012
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Isotope seperator - plague kit
I assume this is downloading nuclear bombs or viruses? And that means that we need AI to monitor us constantly in case some idiot kills everyone?
Daniel_Newby
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Yes. If your household fabricator can make arbitrary machinery, you can say "Make me a uranium-235 enricher."
thornofmight
on Sept 10, 2012
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Any sci-fi book recommendations where I can read about this sort of thing?
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