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CyborgCabbage on Feb 2, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop developing this technology

This is a fair point, but we have no way of knowing how close we came or will come to a nuclear apocalypse, so the risk posed by nuclear technology is difficult to evaluate.

rbanffy on Feb 2, 2023 [–]

The same as what would have happened have we not invented them.

We don't have reliable ways to project predict the future, or to predict the present based on past conditions.

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