Comment by harrall
2 days ago
Usually measures like these aren’t to stop the people with those kinds of deep resources.
With everything, there is a much bigger group of people in the middle that have “some resources” and “some desire” that these measures are surprisingly effective against.
Raise a $20 item by $1 and suddenly there’s fewer interested people, even though the cost difference is minor. Well, minor to some people but not to others.
But is limiting this information in an LLM the right move? Well that’s a different question.
The difficulty with creating nuclear weapons has been 99% in refining and processing the fuel, not the structure of them, for a very long time.
True for fission bombs. Less true for fusion bombs. The principal makeup and manufacturing of fusion device parts like tampers are still unknown to the public. Having a supply of HEU does not tell you how to assemble a functional triple stage device or how to utilize tritium, an isotope that measurably decreases in purity by the day.
You need a fission bomb to ignite a fusion bomb btw.
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