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Doomsday scoreboard
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#52Until we have nuclear disarmament, there’s a sword having over us. It’s bound to happen eventually
Then we’re back to conventional warfare and the casualties of that. Just look at Russia and Ukraine.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out there, somewhere, is a nerd, laser etching Wikipedia onto metal plates, and burying them to be dug up later, just to be able to say, I knew this would happen!
Needs to carved in stone if they are serious.....
I think it's glass actually? Or something like glass.
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#54I've been in the "doomer" camp for over a decade and been surprised how many things I thought were far off in the future have come to fruition earlier. But, the one thing I always find interesting, philosophically, about believing the world-as-we-know-it is coming to an end is that all of the things people are concerned about will happen no matter what . Being afraid of the end of the world is ultimately being afraid…
If you have ever believed in the butterfly effect and if you believe that the world will keep marching on, then your actions undeniably do leave a permanent change to the world, forever after you are forgotten.
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#55Until we have nuclear disarmament, there’s a sword having over us. It’s bound to happen eventually
Then we’re back to conventional warfare and the casualties of that. Just look at Russia and Ukraine.
Do you think Russia vs. Ukraine would happen with any similarity with the real conflict if Russia didn't have nuclear weapons?
Because, IMO, Russia would be destroyed the first time they threatened NATO.
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Yea im not sure how a civil war in the United States would affect me as an European... It certainly would, but I'd survive. Isn't the whole point of apocalyptic events to not survive them?
Without US involvement in your Eastern flank, it might get tougher.
I think Comrade Krasnov is too busy purging his own country of dissidents to care; we are on our own on this one.
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#57I've been in the "doomer" camp for over a decade and been surprised how many things I thought were far off in the future have come to fruition earlier. But, the one thing I always find interesting, philosophically, about believing the world-as-we-know-it is coming to an end is that all of the things people are concerned about will happen no matter what . Being afraid of the end of the world is ultimately being afraid…
People like Ray Kurzweil, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Paul Christiano see a pathway out of this inevitability through technological singularity. In their vision humans are a seed to something greater, something noticeable on cosmic scales. In their vision, like early humans who emerged on the other end of genetic bottlenecks, today's humans will have a disproportionate effect on the future. According to the current models of cosmology heat death of universe in still inevitability but that's on a completely different timescale than human life.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then we’re back to conventional warfare and the casualties of that. Just look at Russia and Ukraine.
Do you think Russia vs. Ukraine would happen with any similarity with the real conflict if Russia didn't have nuclear weapons? Because, IMO, Russia would be destroyed the first time they threatened NATO.
That's why global nuclear disarmament seems only slightly more plausible to me than (e.g.) global artillery disarmament. For the foreseeable future there are going to be some nations that see nuclear weapons as the more affordable (or the only affordable) deterrent against rival nations that can field much larger armed forces.
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#59One mildly interesting fact that MANY Christians get wrong:
There is no lead-up to the apocalypse. The Messiah will return "like a thief in the night" and "nobody, except my Father, knows the hour of my return" (I probably butchered those two quotes). Either way, the Bible is pretty clear (as was Jesus): there will be zero indication the apocalypse is coming. None. It'll just... start.
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#60Where have I heard that name … oh this little apocalypse https://failure.museum/marchfirst/
First thing I thought of as well! Despite being short lived, MarchFIRST was influential on Apple's branding and comeback.