From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 08:36:47 MDT
Brian Phillips wrote:
>>Someone wrote:
>
> (paraphrase) Oh for the proper technology!
> Someone else responded
>
>>>Its government, not technology.
>
> Someone else chimed in
>
>>It's (mainly) culture, not technology. After so many years, one must
>>conclude that a govt is derived from the dominant cultures.
>
> I think I'll just refrain from breaking this down to the next lower level...
Then I will. It's the species.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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