Posts tagged Nuclear Winter Wager

The Nuclear Winter Wager, in Ten Beats

My #AuditTheMath launch thread, gathered here so you can read and share the whole sequence without an X account: Pascal’s broken wager, re-aimed at a finite, checkable catastrophe — accidental nuclear winter. Don’t believe me; look.

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The Day After June 17

Yesterday, head-down trying to get this campaign to finally launch, I missed what day it was. In Germany, where I grew up, June 17 once stood for a reunification I was certain — as a teenager — would never happen. It did. Here is what that taught me about the gap between what sounds realistic and what turns out to be Real — and why I am betting on a ResearchCity that sounds just as impossible today.

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