Indeed, just as few folks bought CPUs to mine, every purchase of an ASIC has been with the intention of rigging the system for the individual. The first folks who turned on their fist ASICs were probably laughing their heads off, and they are likely today, phenomenally rich.
The same thing will happen again. The time scales are important here. Perhaps nukes will eventually be comodity priced as well one day but the time horizons are much longer than for silicon
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No matter how decentralized nukes are, it won't result in the desired decentralization of power the Founders hoped for. As long as any single person can blow up the Earth, we get power that is both decentralized and centralized at the same time. That is nothing like 1700s guns.
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I fully agree with your points on the 2nd amendment and how the original intentions no longer apply. My point is simply that ASICs are massively more within reach to your average person than nukes and F-15s ever have been (and hopefully ever will)
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But those ASICs can be made obsolete, just like gatling guns were, by newer tech. And each time the newer tech comes along centralization rears its ugly head.
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Perhaps ASICS are more like machine guns then. Order of magnitude more efficient, more expensive, but not completely out of reach. Wonder what the nuke equivalent would turn out to be... quantum computing?
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