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by scott_w 1113 days ago
> To follow on the analogy: unlike the guy with the acid bottle, the guy with the nuke has certainly the means to hop on a plane and buy his way into NZ rather than nuking it.

That assumes money matters any more. It’s not unreasonable that we go past that point, leading to the irrational scenarios.

It’s hard to apply regular probabilities to this, since we’re discussing a situation where the best option for all humans is to get to New Zealand! We have no frame of reference for this scenario.