Re:Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
by comp_throw7 on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:02AM
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(For confused readers: no, they don't. Not even the nuclear stockpiles would be enough to cause human extinction, even if they were turned deliberately to that end.)
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Re:Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
by brokenmachine on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:58AM
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I absolutely believe that if there was a project where every nuclear weapon was systematically used for the purpose of making humans extinct, it would be successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb
>After one half-life of 5.27 years, only half of the cobalt-60 will have decayed, and the dose rate in the affected area would be 5 Sv/hour. At this dose rate, a person exposed to the radiation would receive a lethal dose in 1 hour.
>After 10 half-lives (about 53 years), the dose rate would have decayed to around 10 mSv/hour. At this point, a healthy person could spend up to 4 days exposed to the fallout with no immediate effects.
People can't stay in bunkers for 20 years at a time, just to emerge into a radiated hellscape.