Importance: 5 | # | acx Scott: There’s a taboo on using nukes in war. If someone uses a tiny nuke, which produces an explosion no bigger than a conventional bomb, then in some sense this doesn’t matter, because it’s no worse than a conventional bomb would have been. But in another sense, it matters a lot, because you’ve broken the taboo, and now there’s only a weaker, fuzzier taboo preventing you from using a very big nuke. So if we want a taboo on recurrence, there needs to be some specific taboo. When Pachocki says “Yes, we did recurrence,...