[wobbegongz]

Chekovs gun is a tool for better stories. It does not work in reality, because in the real world it is always a cost to doing things. And extreme action has extreme costs, so very seldom does any country do anything extreme. As an example, nobody has used a nuke in war since ww2.

[nyolfen]

the threat of nukes guides all international political arrangements. what does the digital intelligence and coercion machinery guide?

you may not feel threatened by this arrangement now, but how confident do you feel that these tools will always be controlled by people you trust?