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Old 04-18-2012, 08:54 AM   #83
ErhnamDJ
 
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Default Re: Probability of THS scenario - in light of the last 10 years

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
But, in practice, a sensible dictator is not going to be supportive of a technology that would allow his rivals to raise armies against him by copying themselves.
But they also really need to copy people. I bet Kim Jun-un would love to make a couple of million copies of nuclear and rocket scientists.

You're going to end up with very poor dictatorships where it doesn't matter what they do, because they'll still be facing off against superpowers no matter what they do. So, they're looking at the question: why not just do what I want?
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