Comment by baq

1 day ago

in that case in particular it led to 80 years of relatively calm geopolitics kinetically, all things considered. I'm not sure I want to live through an AI cold war, but it sure seems I don't get to choose.

> relatively calm geopolitics kinetically

Relative to what?

There's this trend in history that every hundred years there's a giant blow up, lots of violence, followed by peace.

It's likely that we would have had 80 years of relative calm due to that cycle even if nukes hadn't happened