Lesswrong/sneerclub each have a button to take down the other for the day.
Once pressed the other site is taken down, after a 15 minute delay (so mutual destruction is possible if return fire happens within 15mins).
People would spend the whole day^[1] going back and forth between the two sites saying “look, one of them says they have already fired, we have to shoot NOW, before we go down.”
We don’t even need a mechanically introduced false alarm system, I think people getting hyped and misreading/misrepresenting comments on the other site would do enough.
[1] Or, at least the day until 00.15.01 am, when the inevitable first strike lands.
Maybe (to make it more similar to nuclear war):
Lesswrong/sneerclub each have a button to take down the other for the day.
Once pressed the other site is taken down, after a 15 minute delay (so mutual destruction is possible if return fire happens within 15mins).
People would spend the whole day^[1] going back and forth between the two sites saying “look, one of them says they have already fired, we have to shoot NOW, before we go down.”
We don’t even need a mechanically introduced false alarm system, I think people getting hyped and misreading/misrepresenting comments on the other site would do enough.
[1] Or, at least the day until 00.15.01 am, when the inevitable first strike lands.