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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by spdionis on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:20AM (#16772612)
Isn't that what is kinda happening with nuclear weapons though? I would argue we have less armed conflict nowadays exactly for the reasoning in that quote. Dynamite did not really allow for two army corps to mutually annihilate each other in a second, nuclear weapons actually do.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by kevinmchugh on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:09PM (#16776929)
Nuclear weapons didn't stop wars, and they didn't stop major powers from fighting each other. It just moved to proxy wars. Proxy wars have been common for a long time. Maybe they've stopped world wars, but maybe the two World Wars were exceptions and not a guaranteed feature. I don't know how to quantify whether there are greater or fewer armed conflicts between states since the invention of nuclear weapons.
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