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PanzerKommander t1_j5gaxdq wrote

Reply to comment by marcellux314 in Anyway things go downhill? by [deleted]

Recession won't stop it, ww3 might even speed it up.

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sticky_symbols t1_j5gdat2 wrote

Ww3 will most certainly end civilization, if not the entire species. Experts are unsure whether a full scale nuclear exchange would kill every single human being, but certainly the vast majority.

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PanzerKommander t1_j5gfe3g wrote

  1. You give nukes way more credit then they deserve.

  2. The nuclear weapons are pointing at each other, the goal is to knock out the other guys capabilities without killing his civilian population (you need them alive to be hostages).

  3. You can have a large war between major powers without it going nuclear, as long as the goal of the war isn't to dismantle each other.

Source: I was an Air Force Miniteman Operator

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sticky_symbols t1_j5goljf wrote

I respectfully am going with the opinions of those who have studied the effects of fallout and nuclear winter.

Yes we could have a large war without a nuclear exchange. That does not seem likely.

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YobaiYamete t1_j5iwmqw wrote

> you need them alive to be hostage

This is the big flaw in your argument. You are assuming two rational countries are having a friendly saber rattling thermonuclear exchange.

I can assure you, 100% assure you, that if Kim Jong Un was launching nukes at the US and thought he could get away with it, he would absolutely be targeting every large population center he could

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wildechld t1_j5iit2h wrote

But what if humanity uploaded their conciousness and merged with AI? Perhaps that is our future and our path of evolution we were destined to take? You can destroy our physical form but we as a species would still survive.

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marcellux314 t1_j5gcmj7 wrote

I am afraid there would not be any Manhattan like projects the fear of the enemy being the first in creating a powerful entity like agi would impel them towards total annihilation of the other

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