Max Tegmark
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2,248 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2018
last heard 3 Nov
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Like, you remember when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands?
The military junta that ordered that, right?
People were cheering on the streets at first when they took it.
And then when they got their butt kicked by the British, you know what happened to those guys?
They were out.
And I believe those who are still alive are in jail now, right?
So, you know, the Russian leadership is entirely cornered where they know that just...
getting driven out of Ukraine is not an option.
So this to me is a typical example of Moloch.
You have these incentives of the two parties where both of them are just driven to escalate more and more, right?
If Russia starts losing in the conventional warfare,
The only thing they can do against the war is to keep escalating.
And the West has put itself in the situation now where we've sort of already committed to drive Russia out.
So the only option the West has is to call Russia's bluff and keep sending in more weapons.
This really bothers me because Moloch can sometimes drive competing parties to do something which is ultimately just really bad for both of them.
And what makes me even more worried is not just that it's difficult to see an ending, a quick, peaceful ending to this tragedy that doesn't involve some horrible escalation, but also that we understand more clearly now just how horrible it would be.
There was an amazing paper that was published in Nature Food this August,
by some of the top researchers who've been studying nuclear winter for a long time.
And what they basically did was they combined climate models with food, agricultural models.
So instead of just saying, yeah, you know, it gets really cold, blah, blah, blah, they figured out actually how many people would die in different countries.
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