Sarokrae comments on Existential risks open thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sarokrae 06 April 2013 12:46:13PM * 0 points [-]

Pushing for more democratic governments in states like Russia and China might also decrease the chances of nuclear war, etc.

How sure are you?

(I've tried to be upwardly biased on numbers for all three, since it's obviously hard to decide who the aggressors in a conflict are)

Wars that the PRC have participated in that were not part of domestic territorial disputes since 1949: 2
Likewise for Russia: 5
Likewise for the USA: 17

(for the USA and USSR figures I'm counting all of the Cold War as one conflict, and likewise all of the War on Terror)

Edit: What happened to my formatting? I've had this problem before but I've never been able to fix it.

Comment author: SWIM 07 April 2013 12:47:18AM * 1 point [-]

Good point. I think ideally your sample size would be larger, I'm not sure the US is representative of democratic countries.

Re: formatting. Try putting a blank line between bullets.

Comment author: Sarokrae 07 April 2013 06:26:51PM 0 points [-]

Re: formatting. Try putting a blank line between bullets.

Tried, doesn't work. Anyone got any ideas?

Comment author: SWIM 10 April 2013 07:32:35AM * 1 point [-]

You also need to put a space between the asterisk and the start of your sentence. Ex.:

* These

* Will

* Be

* Bullet

* Points

Comment author: Sarokrae 12 April 2013 10:49:10AM 1 point [-]

Thank you!

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