From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science
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by metalman
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science is the ultimate tool.
there must be a minimum size for a culture of state/civisation where by useing science it is possible to bootstrap into a full technological force.
North Korea is a good exapmle where they went from legions of bayonet infantry troops, to a nuklear armed state with orbital rocket capability, along with a highly talented cyber brigade, from rice and rifles, just did it.
As has been pointed out many times, the genie is out of the bottle, and wont go back in, and the faster and easier we graple with the inevitable leveling up, of everybody, the better.
For those who fantisise about containment and the eventual reduction of certain societies "back to the stone age" , they are blind to how there "logic" only hastens a new level of societal intercourse.
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