[marvin]

> There is no Szilard patent for AGI

You don’t know that. But even worse, you probably won’t know if it happens. History is not as predictable in the present as it is in hindsight.

Most physicists in 1935 would still have said that an atomic bomb was impossible, and defended it with the same indignated vigor demonstrated in this thread.

[tacocataco]

Some theorized the A-bomb could start a chain reaction igniting the atmosphere.

https://www.insidescience.org/manhattan-project-legacy/atmos...

I guess I'm glad they were wrong but what a hell of a risk to take just to get another bomb when we already had so many. Perhaps the pressure of other nations developing the weapon was just to great.