Comment by bpodgursky
2 years ago
Does it feel as ridiculous if you s/ai/nuclear weapons/?
The people worried about AI are worried that the first country that achieves ASI will achieve strategic dominance equivalent to the US as of 1946.
2 years ago
Does it feel as ridiculous if you s/ai/nuclear weapons/?
The people worried about AI are worried that the first country that achieves ASI will achieve strategic dominance equivalent to the US as of 1946.
No, the people worried about AI are worried that the first country that achieves ASI will achieve strategic dominance equivalent to accidentally releasing an engineered super-pathogen, causing an unstoppable, world-ending pandemic.
Heh. US’ strategic dominance is not due to nuclear weapons.
Uh. That's definitely a statement.
Can you tell me with a straight face that China's actions in the Pacific are not impacted by the US strategic nuclear arsenal?
Yes. US’s military power is due to having 11 aircraft carrier groups “and no healthcare”, gigantic military spendings, and madlads at the commands who don’t mind reducing Irak to ashes on a whim, or going to UN Security Council to shake a phial pretending to be “proof that they have WMD” (thanks Colin Powell), while never finding them, and having worldwide systems to spy every electronic device.
I’m not saying I dislike US dominance, but at least, the nuclear option is nothing compared to the rest of their spendings.
Does Pakistan has the same geopolitical influence as the US from the atomic bomb? Or France?
Being a nuclear power is something shared by a few, but the US dominance has no equal.
It's pretty clear that the US leadership mostly comes from its economic power, which it used to derive from its industrial strength and is now more reliant on its technological superiority (since it has sold its industry to China, which may end up as a very literal execution of the famous quote from Lenin about capitalists selling the rope to hang them).
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