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lol never heard of nukes or mutually assured destruction? Can’t even stop Iran or North Korea and you think China can be stopped?
by killingtime74 5y ago
lol never heard of nukes or mutually assured destruction? Can’t even stop Iran or North Korea and you think China can be stopped?
- bpodgursky 5y agoThat's exactly my point. I did, explicitly, say it was unpleasant, and something you should only do in extremis -- when you genuinely believe that extinction a likely alternative. But the US could absolutely glass every semiconductor fab (and datacenter, and research facility) in mainland China using a combination of conventional + atomic kinetic options.
- killingtime74 5y agoI guess we agree then. That would lead to the end of the human race
- bpodgursky 5y agoNo, that's almost certainly incorrect. Here's a decent summary of current research: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sT6NxFxso6Z9xjS7o/nuclear-war-is-unlikely-to-cause-human-extinction https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sT6NxFxso6Z9xjS7o/nuclear-wa... It would be an unthinkable catastrophe, but almost certainly not the end of the human race (and likely not even modern civilization).