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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by altmanaltman on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:53AM (#49773903)
Yes, we are unlikely to get to a point of an 1800s civil war, of course. But I mean, if things do get that bad, we cannot rule out a divided military as well. How that would work in practice, I'm not sure, since, as you mentioned, armed forces work these days differently as well, and defection like that might not even be feasible, I guess.

Overall I would say civil war is more likely (even given how unlikely it is) than just a robotic uprising that will root out all humanity and make the world unfit for biological beings as the original comment implied.

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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by tedggh on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:20AM (#49774068)
Nuclear war is a civilization-ending tool that AI could realistically exploit. It would only need to hack a weaker nuclear nation to send a ICBM our way, sabotage communications and let our draconian nuclear war strategy do the rest. There’s a book by Annie Jacobsen that explains from a plausible military perspective how this could rapidly unfold. It was poorly plagiarized by Netflix and turned into a mini series but the book is much more better at scaring the s out of you.
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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by simonh on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:34AM (#49784670)
It would also end the AI. Not to say it couldn’t happen though, if it thought an apocalypse could somehow instrumentally help it fill its monthly paperclip quota.
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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by DANmode on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:59AM (#49773938)
To your point: it takes 1-3% of a population to upend things…based on historical reference.
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Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors by a96 on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:39AM (#49784212)
So, 3-10 million people or so for US.
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