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An escalation step involving advanced weapons meant to shock the opponent before biochemical or nuclear escalation.
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secret weapons
An escalation step involving advanced weapons meant to shock the opponent before biochemical or nuclear escalation.
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prediction
He rejects near-term nuclear-use fears because, in his escalation model, secret and biochemical weapons have not appeared, so nuclear weapons are still several steps away.
diagnosis
He says the goal of torture is not to extract information but to turn people into programmable secret weapons.
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"...still refuse to surrender, what you do now is you use secret weapons. Secret weapons might be advanced missiles that no one's ever seen..."
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"Okay? Unless I see biochemical weapons being used, I refuse to believe that nuclear weapons is on the table. Okay? All right? So I..."
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"...them you torture them because you're trying to turn them into secret weapons"
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"...always been good at conquering empires. These are the Mongols. The secret weapon, of course, is a horse archer. This is like the ultimate..."
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"...the topic of secret societies and we're gonna focus on their secret weapon Which is mind control. They're able to turn you into a..."
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"And that was his secret weapon. Also, no one took him seriously, right? At this point in history, everyone thought Stalin was an intellectual..."
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"...Jobs, the joke about Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs had a secret weapon. It was called a reality distortion projector. Basically, Steve Jobs lied..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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