HistoPol, 3 months ago

@specked @wikipedia @marcelliotnet @Oeneus

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...since the advent of the #OverkillCapacity, humanity simply cannot afford this option.

Thus, a won war will not give the victor any legal or moral claim to a territory.

#EthnicCleansings, e.g. by means of #MassDeportations of a population, e.g. of the #Crimean #Tartars**, and then phony #plebiscites years later, or causing a population to flee en masse from a war (e.g. through the #Russian invasion of...

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars

HistoPol, 9 months ago

@TruthSandwich

Very true.

Apart from the #ClimateCatastrophe and #AI *, this is why I'm here.

The #AIWar, as of today, seems lost to me. The most powerful men, corporations, and institutions are engaged in an arms race, which has even more momentum than the #ICBM race + the ensuing #OverkillCapacity.
#Embodiment, the (IMHO not arguably) final step towards a self-aware artificial general intelligence has already begun. The train's left the station.**
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438
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