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23 Post author: gwern 30 June 2014 11:04PM

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Comment author: Khoth 01 July 2014 03:59:20PM 3 points [-]

In a world where a possibly-irrational actor is using "do what we tell you or you get nuked" as an instrument of foreign policy against a load of other possibly-irrational actors, how long would it be before something went horribly wrong?

Comment author: gwern 01 July 2014 05:14:34PM 6 points [-]

Is a world in which only one possibly-irrational actor has nukes and can make threats more likely to go wrong or upon going wrong go horribly wrong, than a world in which dozens of possibly-irrational actors have nukes and can make threats?