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50: About that TED Talk | Kevin Rose

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The Cost of Making a Nuclear Weapon

The cost of making a nuclear weapon was never, ever on a plane trajectory to get into high school laboratories. The intera structure makes godlike genius level historic impossibilities the private domain of one or two living geniuses and then diffuse them to pretty much everybody. If you wanted to play cheqkers with a computer in 19 52, you literally had to be a guy named arthur samuel who had a nobel adjacent brain. You don't have to be a genius like arthurSamuel. And somebody as brilliant as arthursamuel would not have been able to play checkers against the confuter in 19 51. This stuff has been getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper

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