People obsessed with x-risk simultaneously obsessed with promoting nuclear power.
Seems like deeply integrated paradigmatic thinking.
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Trust human beings to maintain safety systems intergenerationally? Sure.
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One of the bleakest moments of the Trump presidency was a bunch of people terrified he'd start a nuclear war, but little to no questioning of why any person should ever have this hypothetical ability.
Perhaps it's a homegrown extinction risk that doesn't need to exist?
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I actually suggested this very thing, that possession of those weapons was by definition insecure, and was met with gafaws. I’d like to think some of the silent bystanders heard me and thought about it for a sec but I have no way of knowing if any minds were changed
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I believe the folks who found my proposition absurd truly believe nuclear power leadership is usually sufficiently capable to risk it, to risk possession of thousands of the suckers