From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 13:10:20 MST
>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>>Brian D Williams wrote:
>> This is clearly U.N. territory.
>Hm. Supposing for the sake of argument that we want the U.N. to
>have more power (over the next 20 years or so), what kind of
>organization could have the capability to plan very long-term
>commitments, yet still remain representative of short-term Western
>democracies and the other countries of the world?
I don't want to U.N. to have more power, in fact the exact
opposite.
But the sort of new beginning Afghanistan is going to need the U.N.
is perfect for.
A giant torpid bureaucracy, they'll be arguing the finer points for
years. Just the thing to induce the sluggishness Afghanistan is
going to need for awhile.
Like pouring mollasses over the whole country.
Brian
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