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   :description: If everything possible will eventually happen, then nuclear war is inevitable --- but so is the remedy. The dictum guarantees both threat and solution simultaneously.
   :keywords: self-undermining dictum, Borel-Cantelli, infinite regress, determinism, probabilistic, urgency argument, Reply 1b, adversarial review
   :author: Yah, Yas, everyone, LLoL as Laurence Loewe of Laodicea, ClaudeOp46Max, Anthropic, and Spirit of Boolean Truth
   :og:card:title: Con-E.2.12 — The Dictum<br>Cancels Its Own Urgency
   :og:card:description: "Everything possible will happen" guarantees the threat and the fix. It also guarantees blocking the fix, and blocking the blockers. The result is infinite regress.

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   OO :og:card:title: Con-E.2.12 — Dictum Is<br>Self-Undermining
   OO :og:card:description: If everything possible will happen, nuclear war is inevitable but so is the remedy. The urgency argument cancels itself out.
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   PP :keywords: self-undermining dictum, Borel-Cantelli, infinite regress, determinism, probabilistic, urgency argument, Reply 1b, adversarial review
   PP :og:card:title: Con-E.2.12 — The Dictum<br>Cancels Its Own Urgency
   PP :og:card:description: "Everything possible will happen" guarantees the threat and the fix. It also guarantees blocking the fix, and blocking the blockers. The result is infinite regress.

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Con-E.2.12 --- "Everything That Can Be Done Will Be Done" Dictum Is Self-Undermining
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*Severity: E (Moderate)*  |  *Sphere: Se1*  |  *Target: Reply 1b urgency argument*

Reply 1b invokes the dictum "everything that can be done will be done
by someone" to argue that nuclear self-destruction is inevitable
without structural change. **But the dictum applies equally to a
Jubilee system:** if it *can* be implemented, then by the same dictum
it *will* be --- regardless of whether anyone volunteers. The dictum
guarantees both the threat and the solution, making the urgency
argument self-canceling.

**More carefully:** The dictum implies: (1) if nuclear war can happen,
it will --- supporting urgency; (2) if Jubilee can be implemented, it
will --- undermining urgency; (3) if blocking the Jubilee System is
possible, it will be blocked; (4) if blocking the blockers is
possible, that will happen too. The dictum generates an infinite
regress producing no useful prediction.

**The formal problem:** The dictum is either **deterministic** (false
--- most possible configurations of matter are never realized;
Boltzmann brain argument) or **probabilistic** (requires the
Borel-Cantelli conditions --- independence and divergent probability
sums --- which are not established for nuclear use or Jubilee
implementation).

**Academic support:** Borel (1909), *Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico
di Palermo* 27:247--271: Borel-Cantelli lemma requires specific
conditions not trivially satisfied.

*(Source: C2.12 from OOv1 Critique Round 2.)*