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SoylentRox t1_j5sjtg3 wrote

Reply to comment by LoquaciousAntipodean in This subreddit has seen the largest increase of users in the last 2 months, gaining nearly 30k people since the end of November by _dekappatated

I mean nuclear weapons are real and they had a powerful effect on history.

In 1944 as a member of the public how would the capabilities describe sound to you?

"Oh yeah some special rocks we found and a lot of chemistry will let us annihilate a whole country in 30 minutes. If we had nukes on V2 missiles right now we could defeat the Nazis and the soviets in 30 minutes, leaving all of them dead, with every single city they have turned to rubble"

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vivehelpme t1_j5tb6os wrote

For factual accuracy the V2 rockets were a german weapon so if you had nukes on them you'd be defeating the commies and allies in 30 minutes.

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j5tekgj wrote

Pardon? What has any of that got to do with AI? Remind me again when nuclear weapons became a widespread and accessible hobby amongst the general public in an extremely rapid way, I don't remember that.

And apparenly there was the time nuclear weapons mysteriously became 'too powerful' for us to 'handle', and suddenly tried to turn all our atoms into more nukes? Hum, I must have missed that one in school.

Edit: also, your description of nukes would have been laughable to an actual vaguely-knowledgeable 1940's person, say a chemistry teacher or an engineer of artillery, someone like that. Neither uranium nor rocketry were totally unknown and 'magical' to the people of the time, any more than AI or quantum computing are magical to us now.

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TallOutside6418 t1_j5uny3y wrote

So when Einstein wrote that letter to Roosevelt - telling him of the likelihood that a chain reaction could be created using Uranium to release massive amounts of energy - that was old news? I wonder why Einstein wasted his time telling the president what some high school chemistry teacher already knew all about?

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maskedpaki t1_j5v2s8j wrote

maybe because the president didnt know high school chemistry

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carl sagan also had to explain global warming to politicians.

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Human-Ad9798 t1_j5uuctm wrote

Gotta be the dumbest comment

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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j5xgucq wrote

And you gotta be the dumbest commenter. Do you have any actual point you want to make, or do you just drive-by snipe at people to try and make yourself look clever?

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