Are we heading for World War Three?
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Are we heading for World War Three?
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#2It's already started and no one even cares.
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#3"Recent high-profile advances in artificial intelligence have led to increased fears that AI could accidentally cause a global conflict."
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#4It's already started and no one even cares.
I mean, if open military conflict starts between major powers historians will absolutely point to current events as the sizzling fuse.
But that open conflict has not started yet and current flareups may still resolve (they aren’t the first), so no not really.
It hasn’t started until it’s started.
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#5It's already started and no one even cares.
Pretty much. I see no realistic path forward that will lead to any kind of de-escalation in the world. Everyone just keeps poking the sleeping bear and adding more and more straw to the camel's back.
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#6"Recent high-profile advances in artificial intelligence have led to increased fears that AI could accidentally cause a global conflict."
Yeah, I don't know who sprinkled AI on this. There's plenty to talk about around unexpected escalation around Ukraine, Taiwan, Gaza, and so on without adding that.
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#7I'm of the opinion that we're probably at the midpoint of what future historians will consider the preliminary period.
The Non-Western axis has been turning up the heat, there's been something like 8 or 9 coups in Africa since 2020 plus more coup attempts, there was the Myanmar coup in 2021 you've got troop build up along the Serbia-Kosovo border, you've got fighting again in Azerbaijan and Armenia, and now Israel and Hamas. I expect more and more of these coups and conflicts will arise in the coming year or two as the Non Western powers try to stretch Western military resources.
The future historians will consider the true start to be whenever a NATO country is officially drawn into one of the fights, the same way the UK and France were drawn in to the conflict in WW2 after Poland was invaded.
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#8It's already started and no one even cares.
Pretty much. I see no realistic path forward that will lead to any kind of de-escalation in the world. Everyone just keeps poking the sleeping bear and adding more and more straw to the camel's back.
Who is the sleeping bear you are referring to?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty much. I see no realistic path forward that will lead to any kind of de-escalation in the world. Everyone just keeps poking the sleeping bear and adding more and more straw to the camel's back.
Who is the sleeping bear you are referring to?
I don't think they are referring to any specific country or alliance but to the catastrophic idea of a hot war between two nuclear armed countries.
Re: Are we heading for World War Three?
#10"Recent high-profile advances in artificial intelligence have led to increased fears that AI could accidentally cause a global conflict."
Yeah, I don't know who sprinkled AI on this. There's plenty to talk about around unexpected escalation around Ukraine, Taiwan, Gaza, and so on without adding that.
What exactly does unexpected escalation around Ukraine mean in this context? There already is a war there.