Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
AI stuff I find more interesting to think about than AGI safety https://i.imgur.com/pMbgKWs.png
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Colin Johnson ðŸ’
@cojo.eth
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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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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).
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Colin Johnson ðŸ’
@cojo.eth
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.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
mad* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
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Colin Johnson ðŸ’
@cojo.eth
That’s an excellent piece, just read it. And everyone agrees that MAD is effective. But nonproliferation has reduced the number of nukes from like 80k to 13k, encouraged four countries to give them up, and stopped dictators from controlling them. We can’t quantify the counterfactual because we’re all alive
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