Superintelligence vs. The Second Strike

·LessWrong··

Crosspost of my substack piece, covering quick thoughts on AI overcoming nuclear deterrence. TLDR: Nuclear deterrents likely only buy time to further invest in more resilient second-strike guarantees: without a comparable AI base, this will not happen fast enough and even nuclear states will eventually be disempowered.Historically, plenty of new military technologies have stress-tested nuclear deterrence. ICBMs made it possible to annihilate enemy cities from the safety of the homeland, MIRVs le...

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