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Some of the best people ever to exist are people who could have launched nukes, but didn't. This suggests a new high-priority career path:
Probably a depressing career path because there's a ~99.99% probability that you will never do anything important. But it could be high EV.
I'd consider tweaking (3) to something like, "Make sure you don't start a nuclear war based on a false alarm." The current version has imo some serious downsides:
(I strongly upvoted this; I think some subset of EAs are overly naive about what channels could nuclear policy be used to reduce catastrophic risks)
There wouldn't be an association with planned disloyalty nor an implication for military strategy because the person would keep his/her intention secret.
One worry is that, for this to become a "new EA cause" as the post advocates, i.e. for many people to do this, there would have to be prominent community advocacy for these intentions, which would have reputational effects on everyone associated with the community. (And for getting a small number of people to do this, there's the same tradeoff, although it's lower-magnitude.)