Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@robketterling @BrianZahnd As for googling Good Religious War pimps? A search quickly yields this. The ability to disguise nuclear war as just defines Anti-Christ. So, anybody have an effective response to recent developments upending the nuclear politics historically preventing Armageddon? Hands up, then.

Nick Routledge @nick_routledge For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020
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Nick Routledge @nick_routledge For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Oct 2023

@Heavylifter57 @BrianZahnd 1/ It's perfectly clear once you see it, of course: the spiritual derangement of a modernist worldview offering no exit strategy other than the common, explicitly stated right and readiness to blow the world to smithereens, presents every last one of us with an epochal conundrum.

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Quoted by@MassimoFaggioli Let's not fool ourselves. An identical religious logic stands on both sides. The American-speaking version? "Just war theory is still applicable to questions in the nuclear age. The principles of 'jus ad bellum' and 'jus in bello' can be applied to the use of nuclear weapons."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jamespoulos 1/2 "Even in neutral scenarios without initially provided conflicts, Big Tech's AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames. All models show signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations.” @jamespoulos: "Imagine what they’ll do your soul.”Quoted by@jamespoulos 1/2 "Even in neutral scenarios without initially provided conflicts, Big Tech's AI models chose violence and escalated to nuclear strikes in simulated wargames. All models show signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations.” @jamespoulos: "Imagine what they’ll do your soul.”