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On the other hand, it increases the chance you’re around when the worst thing inevitably happens.

I kind of lost track of his books in the early 2000s, but they’re still among my favorites. Gone too soon :/

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Thanks for posting, please ignore the stochastic luddites 🙂

One must imagine Sisyphus strapping

Switchcraft!

Espera, ¿todo es Ohio?

They actually used the Terminator thingy in combat?

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I don’t know… admittedly, I only remember some vague bits from Tom Clancy novels, but didn’t Soviet attack subs wait outside the home ports for the SSBNs to try to stay on their tail, and they never managed to?

I should dig up The Hunt for Red October, I guess, but given current geopolitics maybe Red Storm Rising is a better fit :)

These subs all have home ports and can be observed when they leave, so that’s probably not a big deal?

Burning in nuclear fire has not traditionally been seen as a drawback among the ncd commentariat

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…can’t argue with that

Thanks, that was interesting. I kept thinking that this reads like something out of Quanta Magazine, and then at the end there was an attribution to them :)

To all the reflexive AI-downvoters: This is about an application of machine learning, not an LLM. Don’t behave like an advanced autocomplete; think before you click :P

The road is karma

Thanks for posting, don’t mind the downvotes from the luddites :D

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