From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 05:57:54 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
> >
> > Damien Broderick wrote:
> > >
> > > At 12:06 AM 9/29/01 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Lots and lots and lots of nuclear power plants.
> > >
> > > Each of them protected by a force field and ray guns, to keep the next lot
> > > of terrorist-hijacked planes at bay.
> >
> > There will be no more terrorist hijacked planes. That is not
> > difficult to guarantee. At least much less difficult than force
> > fields and ray guns.
>
> I don't know that a passenger mass attack is an absolute protection. I
> can think of at least two ways to hijack a plane anyway.
As I previously said "We've probably seen the last successful hijacking,"
I should probably clarify the above remark.
If I'm trying to predict whether anyone will actually succeed in hijacking
a plane ever again, my guess is no - not unless technology changes the
rules again. When the attack has been planned over years and the
hijackers still need to resort to box cutters, the system is basically
working.
If you're asking me whether you still need to design nuclear power plants
to withstand a deliberate 747 hit, the answer is that I can think of at
least two ways to hijack a plane anyway.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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