From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 07:41:11 MDT
>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>Let's cut to the chase. Would you rather that the US invade all
>countries with squalid dictatorships in an attempt to impose
>order? Or would you prefer to maintain international stability
>before the Singularity and hope that not too many people die?
>Both options are morally uncomfortable, and I'm starting to get
>fed up with people's inability to confront uncomfortable choices,
>so I cynically predict that most people on this list will advocate
>some halfhearted ineffective technological solution which couldn't
>be implemented for another ten years as a surrogate for
>confronting either of these two options directly. Incidentally,
>are any of you under the illusion that by arguing about this, you
>are "doing something"?
How exactly did this get to be the U.S's problem?
We should refuse aid to countries run by dictators, if the
international community think this imposes hardship on the
indigenous population, they should give us a call when it's time to
form an international force to invade and depose said dictator.
Nothing morally uncomfortable about this at all.
This is a political problem, not a technological one.
Brian
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