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There are enough nuclear weapons lost and unaccounted for from the cold war to send humanity into extinction many times over. I think there are far more viable
by toolz 3y ago
There are enough nuclear weapons lost and unaccounted for from the cold war to send humanity into extinction many times over. I think there are far more viable human extinction events that could occur that don't involve AI and further I don't exactly see how we halt the progress of AI. What would the language of such a law look like? Presuming it would have to be rather ambiguous, who in the government would be competent enough to enforce this well meaning law that wasn't just going to abuse their power to aide competing interests?
AI is a tricky advancement that will be difficult to get right, but I think humanity has been so far successful at dealing with a much more dangerous technology (nuclear weaponry) - so that gives me hope.
- kalkin 3y agoI have never seen a number for lost nukes higher than the dozens. Do you have a source for enough to "send humanity into extinction many times over"?
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- bee_rider 3y agoIs that true? I thought the number of lost nukes numbered in, like, the dozens at most. It would take a ton of nukes to wipe out humanity (although only one to really ruin somebody’s day). Unless you are counting strategies like: try to pretend you are one of the two (US, Russia) and try to bait the other into a “counterattack,” but hypothetically you could do that with 0 nukes (you “just” need a good enough fake missile I guess).
- nradov 3y agoNonsense. There are at most only a handful of nuclear weapons unaccounted for. And those that may have been lost are no longer going to be really operational. They aren't like rifle cartridges that you can stick in a box and store for decades. The physics package has to be periodically overhauled or else it just won't work.