Comment by atemerev
6 days ago
Mini nukes are hard to build. They require the entire industrial base to produce. The knowledge how to build them is universally available.
The model can tell you how to refine weapon-grade plutonium, but will not get you a factory for that - and it is genuinely hard to build.
What you are describing is pure information control. Which is supposed to be operated by the people who are the most ill equipped to do that - the current US government. Thanks but no thanks. I'll better risk the recipes for mini nukes.
Superintelligence itself is the mini nuke. With it, you can hack virtually any system, order some viral precursors and put together a bioweapon at home (yes you can actually do this, they are available for sale freely), etc.
Not exactly. I used to run my home biolab for CRISPR experiments (thanks to TheOdin for hardware and materials). This is harder than you think. Cultivating viruses is hard. Bioweapons are not about synthesizing new viruses (though this alone is a hard problem - you need growth environments and a lot of lab hardware) - they are about weaponization, aerosol production, hardening tests. You'll need to spend a few millions just for the prototype stage. And if you are into bioweaponeering, you'd better source some actual bio experts, they are quite available.
Knowledge is widely available already. Regulations there are not about witholding the knowledge.