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phriot t1_irsq3li wrote

Reply to comment by earthsworld in When will average office jobs start disappearing? by pradej

Patents typically have expiration dates. Even then, parents only stop you from commercializing something, not making it. If such a nanofactory were to exist, DRM would go further in preventing people from making their own than a patent would. Like, it could in theory make anything, but it's locked down to not make weapons or copies of itself.

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earthsworld t1_irsri29 wrote

and with ML/AI able to crack just about anything, how long do you imagine it would stay "locked down" for?

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phriot t1_irss5v2 wrote

I figure that by the time any of this is real, we'd have quantum-resistant cryptography.

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