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The '''Twin Nuclei Problem of Cell and Atom''' is the recognition that having gained the power to manipulate genetic and atomic nuclei between 1952 and 1953, humanity is now in possession of unprecedented destructive power, and thus capable of self-extinction. All human civilization is now one massive correlated experiment, and any sufficiently large event may be enough to end it. | The '''Twin Nuclei Problem of Cell and Atom''' is the recognition that having gained the power to manipulate genetic and atomic nuclei between 1952 and 1953, humanity is now in possession of unprecedented destructive power, and thus capable of self-extinction. All human civilization is now one massive correlated experiment, and any sufficiently large event may be enough to end it. | ||
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== Solution Decision Tree == | == Solution Decision Tree == | ||
At least one of the following must occur for the Problem to be solved, with or without a human future. No possibility is sane. | At least one of the following must occur for the Problem to be solved, with or without a long-term human future. No possibility is sane. | ||
* A great run of luck occurs. | * A great run of luck occurs. | ||
* An unprecedented outbreak of wisdom occurs. | * An unprecedented outbreak of wisdom occurs. | ||
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As for the decision trees: if humanity is to have a future greater than 500 years with fusion devices and other horrors, what must happen? | As for the decision trees: if humanity is to have a future greater than 500 years with fusion devices and other horrors, what must happen? | ||
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