A "human error" like yesterday’s in Hawaii could, at any time, end nearly all human life, by triggering the US or Russian Doomsday Machines. It is a human error ever to have brought these systems into existence. Either they go, or we will.
Edward Snowden
 @Snowden
14 Jan 2018
As fun as it is to read four-hour experts on Hawaii's nuclear false alarm, if you're curious to learn from one who literally helped write our nuclear war plans, the father of American whistleblowing, @DanielEllsberg, just published a tell-all: amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-…

Jan 14, 2018 · 11:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @DanielEllsberg
Not a Joke. Reagan's "STAR WARS" strategic defense initiative ("SDI") in 1980s was dropped b/c analysis showed the software could not be verified, nor tested in realistic conditions. Today, adding #AI artificial intelligence only mades it less predictable.
Francis Jeffrey
 @FrancisJeffrey7
9 Aug 2017
#Dr_Strangelove piped.video/watch?v=vuP6KbIs… bcc:@realDonaldTrump #Peter_Sellers #George_C_Scott #Stanley_Kubrick &Arthur C Clarke #HAL_Problems
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Since the standards of #ORANGE_BOOK_1986 were abandoned, in favor of using "commercial grade" products, nothing in (military) "#Cyberspace" has been secure, reliable or predictable.
Replying to @DanielEllsberg
@Snowden I am just Evey Hammond!
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So true, Mr.Ellsberg.
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Oh Jesus get over it already
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I am going to get your book sir. "I have become the destroyer of worlds " was Oppenheimer's words that have always stayed with me. As well as the description found in my bible of what a nuclear bomb will do to a person. If you don't mind I would like to include it, please. "Their
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Your book is excellent but terrifying
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It was, indeed, human error to have brought these systems into existence at all. :(
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @dunbar4488
It is patent nonsense to suggest that a false alert over Hawaii could nearly all human life. People need to get a bit of perspective here.
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Replying to @DanielEllsberg @kaleidic
They were brought into existence because people got tired of the "human error" which we describe as invading armies.
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