[ExI] Nuclear Fusion - Friend or Foe?

[Darin Sunley]

No, humanity has an irresistible desire to control, dominate, and thereby
protect itself from the outgroup, grounded in the empirically correct
observation that the outgroup has an irresistible desire to do the same.

"Suicide" as you call it, to the extent that it is a plausible outcome of
war at all, is an unprecedented and novel potential side effect to "mere"
war, which has been an integral part of the human environment and evolved
neural architecture for so long it literally predates opposable thumbs.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 12:22 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Apologies for yet another depressing article. Sorry!
>
> I've just read a long article (translated from the Italian) by a
> retired nuclear researcher.
> We have been hoping that nuclear fusion might provide lots of cheap
> energy and solve our energy problems.
> He is concerned that the research is supported by the search for
> military applications.
>
> <
> https://www.senecaeffect.com/2022/10/the-dark-side-of-nuclear-fusion-new.html
> >
>
> Quote:
> Basically, research on nuclear fusion, sometimes touted as a benign
> technology able to produce energy "too cheap to meter," is mainly
> justified by its military applications. The search is for an "inertial
> confinement device," something that would detonate without the need
> for a trigger in the form of a conventional fission bomb. These
> devices could cover a range of destructive power that could go from
> tactical warheads to planet-bursting weapons.
> ------------------
>
> Why does everything have to made into weapons for destruction?
> Does humanity have an irresistible desire to commit suicide?
>
> BillK
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