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When None Dare Urge Restraint

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Dec 2007 23:09 UTC
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Hiroshima Day

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2008 23:15 UTC
4 points
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Ter­ror­ism is not about Terror

gwern24 Mar 2009 17:08 UTC
48 points
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Bayesi­ans vs. Barbarians

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Apr 2009 23:45 UTC
100 points
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How David Beats Goliath

JulianMorrison5 May 2009 1:25 UTC
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Fight Zero-Sum Bias

multifoliaterose18 Jul 2010 5:57 UTC
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9/​11 as mindkiller

NancyLebovitz12 Sep 2011 17:44 UTC
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[LINK] Ter­ror­ists tar­get AI researchers

RobertLumley15 Sep 2011 14:22 UTC
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The Case against Killer Robots (link)

D_Alex20 Nov 2012 7:47 UTC
12 points
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Don’t Build Fal­lout Shelters

katydee7 Jan 2013 14:38 UTC
46 points
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Near-Term Risk: Killer Robots a Threat to Free­dom and Democracy

Epiphany14 Jun 2013 6:28 UTC
15 points
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Mili­tary Ra­tion­al­ities and Irrationalities

pscheyer9 Sep 2013 23:48 UTC
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Why officers vs. en­listed?

JoshuaFox30 Oct 2013 20:14 UTC
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A Parable of Elites and Takeoffs

gwern30 Jun 2014 23:04 UTC
39 points
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Sum­mary and Les­sons from “On Com­bat”

Gunnar_Zarncke22 Mar 2015 1:48 UTC
28 points
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Land war in Asia

Apprentice7 Dec 2016 19:31 UTC
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WMDs in Iraq and Syria

ChristianKl10 May 2017 21:03 UTC
15 points
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USA v Pro­gres­sive 1979 excerpt

RyanCarey27 Nov 2017 17:32 UTC
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Death in Groups

ryan_b5 Apr 2018 0:45 UTC
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Death in Groups II

ryan_b13 Apr 2018 18:12 UTC
14 points
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The risk of an Amer­i­can Civil War is remote

Samo Burja23 Jul 2018 18:00 UTC
37 points
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(medium.com)

What To Do If Nu­clear War Seems Imminent

Ben_LandauTaylor13 Sep 2018 19:35 UTC
74 points
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(benlandautaylor.com)

Mod­ern­iza­tion and arms con­trol don’t have to be en­e­mies.

Gentzel12 Jan 2019 18:50 UTC
10 points
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(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

[Question] How large is the fal­lout area of the biggest cobalt bomb we can build?

habryka17 Mar 2019 5:50 UTC
20 points
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Diver­gence on Ev­i­dence Due to Differ­ing Pri­ors—A Poli­ti­cal Case Study

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2019 11:01 UTC
27 points
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Does the US nu­clear policy still tar­get cities?

Jeffrey Ladish2 Oct 2019 0:18 UTC
61 points
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The Cy­ber­se­cu­rity Dilemma in a Nutshell

Gentzel12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC
34 points
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(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

In Defense of the Arms Races… that End Arms Races

Gentzel15 Jan 2020 21:30 UTC
38 points
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(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Sleep­walk­ing Toward Armageddon

Slimepriestess9 Mar 2020 7:28 UTC
14 points
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(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] Are vet­er­ans more self-dis­ci­plined than non-vet­er­ans?

Matthew Barnett23 Mar 2020 5:16 UTC
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Op­ti­mis­ing So­ciety to Con­strain Risk of War from an Ar­tifi­cial Su­per­in­tel­li­gence

JohnCDraper30 Apr 2020 10:47 UTC
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What a 20-year-lead in mil­i­tary tech might look like

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2020 20:10 UTC
75 points
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[Question] Are air­craft car­ri­ers su­per vuln­er­a­ble in a mod­ern war?

Liron20 Sep 2020 18:52 UTC
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Nu­clear war is un­likely to cause hu­man extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC
123 points
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Why those who care about catas­trophic and ex­is­ten­tial risk should care about au­tonomous weapons

aaguirre11 Nov 2020 15:22 UTC
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Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Introduction

lsusr18 Nov 2020 8:23 UTC
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Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- War

lsusr19 Nov 2020 3:06 UTC
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Non-Book Re­view: Pat­terns of Conflict

johnswentworth30 Nov 2020 21:05 UTC
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What is it good for? But ac­tu­ally?

KatjaGrace16 Dec 2020 9:20 UTC
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Plan­ning Attacks

lsusr23 Dec 2020 21:52 UTC
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Some recom­men­da­tions for al­ign­ing the de­ci­sion to go to war with the pub­lic in­ter­est, from The Spoils of War

Eli Tyre27 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC
28 points
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Cen­trally planned war

KatjaGrace6 Jan 2021 10:40 UTC
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- The Army’s Form

lsusr23 Jan 2021 6:47 UTC
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Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA10 Feb 2021 2:48 UTC
25 points
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The Fu­ture of Nu­clear Arms Con­trol?

Gentzel15 Feb 2021 1:50 UTC
28 points
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(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

[Pre­dic­tion] What war be­tween the USA and China would look like in 2050

lsusr26 May 2021 6:24 UTC
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Overview of Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ work on risks from nu­clear weapons

MichaelA11 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC
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An­nounc­ing the Nu­clear Risk Fore­cast­ing Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC
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Notes on War: Grand Strategy

johnswentworth18 Jun 2021 22:55 UTC
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Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Potential

lsusr5 Aug 2021 5:29 UTC
26 points
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We Live in an Era of Un­prece­dented World Peace

lsusr30 Aug 2021 22:25 UTC
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World War Zero

lsusr31 Aug 2021 7:22 UTC
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US Mili­tary Global In­for­ma­tion Dom­i­nance Experiments

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 13:34 UTC
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(www.defense.gov)

Great Power Conflict

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Sep 2021 15:00 UTC
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This War of Mine

lsusr25 Sep 2021 1:43 UTC
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Is nuk­ing women and chil­dren cheaper than fire­bomb­ing them?

lsusr14 Oct 2021 8:25 UTC
25 points
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Post­mod­ern Warfare

lsusr25 Oct 2021 9:02 UTC
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First Strike and Se­cond Strike

lsusr25 Nov 2021 9:23 UTC
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[Question] Hedg­ing the Pos­si­bil­ity of Rus­sia in­vad­ing Ukraine

Annapurna23 Dec 2021 1:13 UTC
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Tar­get for Tonight: A Drama In One Act

vernamcipher16 Jan 2022 4:29 UTC
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Rus­sia has In­vaded Ukraine

lsusr24 Feb 2022 7:52 UTC
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[Question] Why would GDP X GDP Per Cap­ita be used as a mea­sure­ment of power? What’s the pur­pose of squar­ing GDP?

dqups125 Feb 2022 2:56 UTC
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Am­bi­guity causes conflict

Ege Erdil26 Feb 2022 16:53 UTC
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Ukraine Si­tu­a­tion Re­port 2022/​03/​01

lsusr2 Mar 2022 5:07 UTC
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The Agent

Ideopunk2 Mar 2022 22:43 UTC
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Ukraine Si­tu­a­tion Re­port 2022/​03/​04

lsusr5 Mar 2022 6:44 UTC
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It’s not WWIII if 5/​6 of hu­man­ity re­mains neutral

lsusr8 Mar 2022 9:20 UTC
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Why a No-Fly-Zone would be the biggest gift to Putin, and why Ze­len­skyy keeps ask­ing for it [Linkpost and com­men­tary]

Dojan17 Mar 2022 3:13 UTC
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The One Who Says, “Enough”

Sable17 Mar 2022 6:17 UTC
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Nu­clear Deter­rence 101 (and why the US can’t even hint at in­ter­ven­ing in Ukraine)

Darmani18 Mar 2022 7:25 UTC
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Wargam­ing AGI Development

ryan_b19 Mar 2022 17:59 UTC
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My mis­take about the war in Ukraine

Ege Erdil25 Mar 2022 23:04 UTC
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In­no­va­tion, Stag­na­tion, and Para­trooper Operations

Davis_Kingsley6 May 2022 20:59 UTC
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[Question] World su­per­pow­ers, par­tic­u­larly the United States, still main­tain large con­ven­tional mil­i­taries de­spite nu­clear de­ter­rence. Why?

niederman28 Dec 2022 5:38 UTC
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(maxniederman.com)

[Question] What Are Your Prefer­ences Re­gard­ing The FLI Let­ter?

JenniferRM1 Apr 2023 4:52 UTC
−4 points
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He­lio-Se­lenic Laser Te­lescope (in SPACE!?)

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel26 May 2023 11:24 UTC
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The Sinews of Su­dan’s Lat­est War

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2023 18:17 UTC
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Bring back the Colosseums

lc8 Sep 2023 0:09 UTC
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I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 8:33 UTC
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[Question] How can the world han­dle the HAMAS situ­a­tion?

Annapurna13 Oct 2023 9:15 UTC
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Geno­cide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvis20 Oct 2023 4:14 UTC
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(messyprogress.substack.com)

AI Safety is Drop­ping the Ball on Clown Attacks

trevor22 Oct 2023 20:09 UTC
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Helpful ex­am­ples to get a sense of mod­ern au­to­mated manipulation

trevor12 Nov 2023 20:49 UTC
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6. The Mutable Values Prob­lem in Value Learn­ing and CEV

RogerDearnaley4 Dec 2023 18:31 UTC
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If Ukraine fails, the world will reap fatal consequences

Danylo Zhyrko5 Mar 2024 19:42 UTC
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