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RetroTechie 28 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursi...

In that case >2 nukes would have been dropped, both US and Japan would be hurting, people would have seen how abhorrent their use is and collectively decided that they shouldn't be used.

tokioyoyo 28 days ago [–]

> In that case >2 nukes would have been dropped

This is a maybe. What we’ve seen so far, no two nuclear superpowers ever nuked each other, as they know both will suffer.

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