AI stuff I find more interesting to think about than AGI safety https://i.imgur.com/pMbgKWs.png

There are lots of things more interesting about nuclear power than nonproliferation, but I’m still pretty happy those discussions led to reasonable actions over the past 70 years.

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Disagree. Nuclear power "regulations" have meant we've built virtually no new nuclear power capacity since the 1970s (other than what had already been approved).

It's not. My wife @julia wrote an extremely detailed piece on this:

https://juliadewahl.com/nuclear-energy-past-present-future

MAAD is the reason we haven't blown ourselves up yet. Plenty of instances of treaties being signed and broken.

That’s a straw man, nonproliferation of arms =/= regulation on power plant development. The latter mostly came due to overzealous environmental activism post Chernobyl.

And we have the benefit of living in a world that has not yet blown up, very likely due to slowing the spread of who owns the technology.