Somehow "cheap weapons able to target civilians, but not those well protected" doesn't make me feel happier. And such weapon are clearly only useful for attack, not defense.

Well, arguing from the derivation of the word is just silly, but:
https://founders.archives.gov/...
clearly shows that some of them agreed with that point of view. Hamilton, however, was only one side. Others interpreted it differently.

Actually, all that literally means is that you can carry them. It doesn't say anything about ownership or control.

Calling that a deterrent is whitewashing it. A hypersonic missile is an attack weapon unless it is specifically an anti-missile missile. It's most highly useful in first strike situations.

Actually, it's one thing to announce, it's another to manufacture at scale. If this is real, it will be a severe threat in 5 years, perhaps a bit less.

What's the range? I really doubt that this is the new MAD, but it does add a new and exciting amount of uncertainty, and increase the advantage of attack over defense.

"Well regulated" is not well defined. It definitely didn't originally mean "government approved"...or at least it didn't mean that to everyone who put their signature to it.

You're being practical, not logical. Logically the 2nd amendment implies that the right to own arms should not be restricted. AFAIK, it's never been interpreted that way by the courts.

There are lots of other places where the clear logical meaning of the US Constitution is always ignored. Often for very sound reasons.

This happens also in LOTS of other parts of the legal system. If an AI ever starts interpreting and enforcing the laws in a literal fashion nearly everyone is going to be hurt. (Sometimes the laws were even written with the intent of selective enforcement, but often I believe people just didn't notice that they implied things that weren't intended.)

What I want is a Yosarian mode.

When I switched off MSWindows, what I wanted was Windows 95b compatibility. It never showed up. It still hasn't. I've intentionally avoided later versions because of terms in the licensing.

These days the only things that haven't showed up on Linux, or had better replacements are a few music programs (more my wife's field than mine) and a few games...that I may have lost the CDs for.

It sounds as if MS is aiming to turn OpenAI into a wholly owned subsidiary. They're both so horrible that I'm not sure whether that would be good or bad.

However I don't remember the Florida experiment reporting dangerous amounts of heavy metals. That's going to need to be considered.

OTOH, when used as soil for growing plants, it would be being continually exposed to moisture and atmosphere.

That's not clear. "Poison" is too broad a term. In both cases the question is "What do you need to do to make it usable?". The two cases are different, so the answers are going to be different, but one is not necessarily harder than the other. E.g. too much salt is poisonous, and so is too much water (people have died from drinking too much water), but both can be handled merely by proper dilution...however you don't dilute them with the same media.

One thing it would take is continued effort over time. Probably decades. These note are just part of the "how do you get it started" series.