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

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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?