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Suppose a nation state spend several trillion dollars on investigating every improbability to achieve science fiction like travel capacity & speed to eventually
by lowdose 6y ago
Suppose a nation state spend several trillion dollars on investigating every improbability to achieve science fiction like travel capacity & speed to eventually reach the conclusion we have reached global maximum of physics as it is.
What is the superior strategy to this nation state other than sending adversaries on a similar resource waisting wild goose chase?
- notechback 6y agoFirst of all why does every nation state have to see other nations as adversarial? They could just share those insights and everyone gains. We're all in the same game of life.
- lowdose 6y agoThe biological warfare capabilities of the USSR that were revealed when the iron curtain fell were a complete surprise to the Western world. The game of power is completely different because communism practiced today has nothing in common with the communism of the USSR. Thus we cannot assume we are going to be lucky again our adversaries paradigm breaks and momentum is lost before they deplete their military capabilities. Suggesting and half confirming an unknown unknown to an adversary is very efficient to expand this relative peaceful periode we live in. Every additional amount of resource adversaries waist on unachievable capabilities is an additional resource not invested capabilities that can be useful to tip the power balance. Nobody wants a military arm race between global powers but I think it is naive to assume what we wish for is a reasonable reflection of how our reality is actually constructed.