Please don’t retaliate; that just ~doubles the damage for no reason. Per David’s comments, I don’t think threatening retaliation helps the situation here.
What if LessWrong is taken down for another reason? Eg. the organisers of this game/exercise want to imitate the situation Petrov was in, so they create some kind of false alarm
Last year the site looked very obviously nuked. If I see that situation, I will retaliate. If I see some other situation, I will use my best judgement.
Surely after the site has been nuked you will no longer be able to enter the codes, because your silos will have been destroyed? And prior to that you risk mis-classifying our civilian space exploration vehicles, whose optimal launch trajectory just happens to go over LessWrong airspace, as weapons?
I hope we invested in secure second strike capabilities. I think Lesswrong has a nuclear triad—we have guest posts on other websites that can launch nukes even after Lesswrong itself has been destroyed
Please don’t retaliate; that just ~doubles the damage for no reason. Per David’s comments, I don’t think threatening retaliation helps the situation here.
Too bad—I am committing to retaliating to establish a deterrent.
What if LessWrong is taken down for another reason? Eg. the organisers of this game/exercise want to imitate the situation Petrov was in, so they create some kind of false alarm
Last year the site looked very obviously nuked. If I see that situation, I will retaliate. If I see some other situation, I will use my best judgement.
Surely after the site has been nuked you will no longer be able to enter the codes, because your silos will have been destroyed? And prior to that you risk mis-classifying our civilian space exploration vehicles, whose optimal launch trajectory just happens to go over LessWrong airspace, as weapons?
I hope we invested in secure second strike capabilities. I think Lesswrong has a nuclear triad—we have guest posts on other websites that can launch nukes even after Lesswrong itself has been destroyed