In Nick Bostrom’s paper on the survival of humanity, several potential catastrophe scenarios are technological ones. That makes me think that it might actually be a bad idea to popularize science.
The irony here is that information about how to create a catastrophe—how to make a nuke, how to construct viruses in a laboratory, how to make a nanobot—is just about the only scientific information that people are hiding. (Fortunatetly, though, they don’t make a big deal about the fact they’re hiding it.)
In Nick Bostrom’s paper on the survival of humanity, several potential catastrophe scenarios are technological ones. That makes me think that it might actually be a bad idea to popularize science.
The irony here is that information about how to create a catastrophe—how to make a nuke, how to construct viruses in a laboratory, how to make a nanobot—is just about the only scientific information that people are hiding. (Fortunatetly, though, they don’t make a big deal about the fact they’re hiding it.)