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As much as I applaud the intention, the genie has been out of the bottle on this one for many years already.
by sudonem 7mo ago
As much as I applaud the intention, the genie has been out of the bottle on this one for many years already.
- markus_zhang 7mo agoArguably it has always been there, considering the US military sponsored so many computing projects.
- taurath 7mo agoThere's always this comment, saying that its useless to possibly govern or resist advancement or development or use of weapons capable of indiscriminate killing. If the world actually worked like they believe it does, if restraint were just not possible, the world would have been destroyed at least 3 documented times over. Don't listen to them.
- sincerely 7mo agoI think theyre referencing the previous Google employee protests of the company working with the Us Military
- jLaForest 7mo agoI think theyre referencing the Google AI already being used to make killing people more efficient
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 7mo agoUnited States 1945 Soviet Union 1949 United Kingdom 1952 France 1960 China 1964 Israel 1966 India 1974 South Africa 1979 Pakistan 1998 North Korea 2006 also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_latency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_latency also, see what Ukraine and Iran got for their "restraint".
- ksynwa 7mo agoWhat are you trying to say exactly?
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 7mo agothat development and advancement of nuclear weapons had not, in fact, been contained.
- ksynwa 7mo agoHow do you know that the list wouldn't have been longer otherwise?
- remarkEon 7mo agoThe point is that the list isn't longer because the United States and USSR chose to not make it longer.
- gammalost 7mo agoSweden would have had its own nuclear bombs if not for the political opposition. That's at least one more that would have been on the list.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 7mo agowill AI non-proliferation treaty make any difference when twenty countries possess weaponized superintelligence?