Producing a strategic advantage for any party at all that is decisive enough to safely disarm the threat of nuclear war.
Acausal trade on even footing with distant superintelligences.
If our physics happen to allow for an easy way to destroy the world, then the way we do science, someone will think of it, someone will talk, and someone will try it. If one superintelligent polymath did our research instead, we don’t lose automatically if some configuration of magnets, copper and glass can ignite the atmosphere.
Producing a strategic advantage for any party at all that is decisive enough to safely disarm the threat of nuclear war.
Acausal trade on even footing with distant superintelligences.
If our physics happen to allow for an easy way to destroy the world, then the way we do science, someone will think of it, someone will talk, and someone will try it. If one superintelligent polymath did our research instead, we don’t lose automatically if some configuration of magnets, copper and glass can ignite the atmosphere.