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A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world's order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.
China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.
Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.
By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.
I wish I got to live on the warp drive side of WW3 but oh well
Ok but what is the price of oil tomorrow at open
$3.50?
Oh that sound about ri.. hey wait a minute
You're not some giant crustacean from the Paleolithic Era are you
God damn loch ness monster
I'm fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn't affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.
When wars breaks out at that scale the government(s) {please don't forget China exists} already has computing facilities secured underground for their own use which will be quite a secret on the scale like Enigma was. It will not be for the public use. They will continue to develop it in a very weaponized war which will make current encryption as sophisticated as a bottle of fireflies. No not AI as the current LLM, more advanced. Getting smarter everyday.
War at that scale pushes technology into unknowns, sometimes beyond what we can speculate or imagine.
Can we just skip to this part? We're awful stewards of this planet. Time for us to go.
"universal peace" == "kill all humans"