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After thinking about this, I am in fact happy that we leave in a world where there is enough "slack": even if we make grave judgement errors, this will only lea
by empiricus 6y ago
After thinking about this, I am in fact happy that we leave in a world where there is enough "slack": even if we make grave judgement errors, this will only lead to slightly worse outcomes, not to extinction. It is not good that we make so many mistakes, but it is good that there is room for error.
- symlinkk 6y agoUntil nuclear weapons. Now one mistake ends humanity forever.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoI haven't seen any support for the argument that nuclear mistakes would cause extinction of the human species outside of fiction. Arguably, we've already had at least two mistakes of the nuclear weapons kind in history already.