@Apollo42
@lemmy.worldIs it really a win for LLMs if the study found no significant difference between those using it as a tutor and those not?
Read the comment you originally replied to and then come back and tell me why we're not starting at 12.
There would never have been any peace treaty, the allies had already agreed that axis surrender must be unconditional.
Japan having one condition would not have matteted, because the allies were not interested in a conditional surrender.
If you ignore the many examples throughout history of more violence being the solution to violence, perhaps you may have a point.
I can go on now?
Everybody always gets hung up on the nukes but I never see anyone complaining about the firebombing which killed many times more people (or the Japanese and their many attempts at biological warfare).
War is inherently bad, and using powerful weapons to end it sooner is the pragmatic and often moral choice. Would you have preferred that the allies invaded Japan, causing millions more to die? Or perhaps simply blocade Japan, causing millions more to die? It's easy to be moralistic when you don't have to make decisions that have millions of lives hanging on them.