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There’s a survivorship bias here. If nuclear weapons did totally annihilate society we could not have this conversation.
by thoughtstheseus 6y ago
There’s a survivorship bias here. If nuclear weapons did totally annihilate society we could not have this conversation.
- kube-system 6y agoTheir point is that anyone who can develop a nuclear weapon also is aware of this. It might be a survivorship bias, but it is also self-fulfilling. The biggest threat, as I can see it, is a truly irrational actor. Luckily they're hard enough to build that this prerequisite has so far filtered out anyone truly irrational.