On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:24:17AM +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Nuclear weapons need a lot of capital and resources to construct,
They also need knowledge, which is still largely secret. The number of people who could construct a crude working nuclear weapon is below 1% (possibly, way below 1%), and an advanced fusion weapon in ppm range. > which is why they can be semi-regulated, at least for individuals. AI > may initially require supercomputers to run, but once home computers We still need some 20 years to come into that range. > catch up to these supercomputers, stopping it would be like trying to Add another couple decades. > stop file sharing and software piracy. Everyone knows how to wripte a P2P application. Nobody knows how to build an AI. If it's a large-scale effort the knowledge can be controlled for a long time. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
