So we’d only kill 99% of us and set civilization back 200 years? Great.
This isn’t super relevant to alignment, but it’s interesting that this is actually the opposite of why nukes haven’t killed us yet. The more we believe a nuclear exchange is survivable, the less the mutually assured destruction assumption keeps anyone from firing.
There are other reasons why nukes haven’t killed us yet—all the known mechanisms for destruction are too small, including nuclear winter.
So we’d only kill 99% of us and set civilization back 200 years? Great.
This isn’t super relevant to alignment, but it’s interesting that this is actually the opposite of why nukes haven’t killed us yet. The more we believe a nuclear exchange is survivable, the less the mutually assured destruction assumption keeps anyone from firing.