@shibao i think a lot of people get in to and do science in an extremely naive way. i mean nobel apparently thought making bombs was gonna be great for miners and it didn't occur to him that professional bullies 1) exist and 2) have spent millennia taking nice things from scientists and making them shit
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@icedquinn @shibao it was and still is great for miners though, long after militaries switched to more potent / resilient explosives.
He knew military is gonna use dynamite (gunpowder explosives existed for many centuries by then) and founded the prize to try to offset that part of its use (and leave a better legacy), not because he regretted ever inventing it.
