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Lots of people disagree on whether it is true or not, but basically the idea is mutually assured destruction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

I sense that with AGI all the outcomes will be a little less assured, since it is general-purpose. We won't know what hit until it's over. Was it a pandemic? Was it automated-religion? Nuclear weapons seem particularly suited to MAD, but not AGI.

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