I was somewhat surprised that V actually lost his body and had no ongoing role in limiting the tenure of Defense Professors. More importantly, I’m somewhat surprised he had no hand in the Stanislav Petrov affair in this timeline.
Does he think he saved the day some time around August 1991?
Or, if he really has a Limitus Professorium curse, did he also cast one before he left to prevent anyone from starting a nuclear exchange? (“Some curses are easier to cast when they bind yourself and others alike; Slytherin’s Parselmouth curse is an example of such.”)
If these are all false, then he sounds like he failed to update after Muggle civilization got through the Cold War alive.
Humanity had many opportunities to destroy civilization during the Cold War. Or are you saying V subscribes to a ridiculously strong notion of quantum immortality?
Or are you saying V subscribes to a ridiculously strong notion of quantum immortality?
You don’t need to believe in quantum immortality for the anthropomorphic principle.
Yes, once 3 of 4 mechanisms that a nuclear bomb needs to detonate failed when a US plane carrying a nuclear bomb crashed. All 4 would have meant a bomb exploding in the US.
It would have needed 3 of 3 votes on that Russian submarine to start a nuclear strike and there were only 2 of 3 votes.
Both of those incidents turned out all right, but there was still a risk and they shouldn’t lead to confidence mistakes won’t happen.
I was somewhat surprised that V actually lost his body and had no ongoing role in limiting the tenure of Defense Professors. More importantly, I’m somewhat surprised he had no hand in the Stanislav Petrov affair in this timeline.
Does he think he saved the day some time around August 1991?
Or, if he really has a Limitus Professorium curse, did he also cast one before he left to prevent anyone from starting a nuclear exchange? (“Some curses are easier to cast when they bind yourself and others alike; Slytherin’s Parselmouth curse is an example of such.”)
If these are all false, then he sounds like he failed to update after Muggle civilization got through the Cold War alive.
You don’t update much on n=1 experiments in cases like this.
Humanity had many opportunities to destroy civilization during the Cold War. Or are you saying V subscribes to a ridiculously strong notion of quantum immortality?
You don’t need to believe in quantum immortality for the anthropomorphic principle.
Yes, once 3 of 4 mechanisms that a nuclear bomb needs to detonate failed when a US plane carrying a nuclear bomb crashed. All 4 would have meant a bomb exploding in the US.
It would have needed 3 of 3 votes on that Russian submarine to start a nuclear strike and there were only 2 of 3 votes.
Both of those incidents turned out all right, but there was still a risk and they shouldn’t lead to confidence mistakes won’t happen.
Tangential, but I believe you mean the anthropic principle, which anyway really only applies to things that happened before you were born.