HONEST_ANNIE

Organizational structure is an alignment mechanism. 

While I sympathize with the stated intentions, I just can't wrap my head around the naivety.  OpenAI corporate structure was a recipe for bad corporate governance. "We are the good guys here, the structure is needed to make others align with us."- an organization where ethical people can rule as benevolent dictators is the same mistake committed socialists made when they had power.  

If it was that easy, AI alignment would be solved by creating ethical AI commit... (read more)

This analysis  assumes that if Russia uses nuclear weapons:

1. Military response from NATO is the worst outcome and largest deterrent, and 
2. China, India and the rest of the world don't have interest in the nuclear issue and their relations with Russia would not change.

For Russian nuclear brinkmanship to be effective, atomic weapon use would need an outcome without complete isolation and regime collapse after a military win.  Becoming another North Korea would be huge  loss for Russia and put the Putin's regime in danger.  

Putin's regime... (read more)