Problems of Proliferation

·LessWrong··

Scientific progress and its perils.TLDR: The vulnerable world hypothesis is likely correct. Once enormous amounts of cognitive labor start getting applied to basic science, it will quickly become apparent how many avenues exist to create cheap, ultradestructive weapons technology. Solving this problem without global preventative policing (e.g. AI nonproliferation) is impossible, because hardening civilians against all avenues of attack is too expensive and will take too long. Rather than sell po...

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