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14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 08:37PM

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Comment author: Jack 09 May 2013 08:53:59PM 4 points [-]

it has been plausibly argued to me that all the roads to nuclear weapons, including plutonium production from U-238, may have bottlenecked through the presence of significant amounts of Earthly U235

This has interesting repercussions for Fermi's paradox.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 09 May 2013 08:59:46PM *  5 points [-]

Yes, particularly in the context that you and I discussed earlier that intelligent life arising earlier might have had an easier time wiping itself out. Although the consensus there seemed to be that it wouldn't be a large enough difference to matter for serious filtration issues.

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