Re: A Little International Game Theory

From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 04:23:03 MST


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: A Little International Game Theory

Lee and Anders exchange

> > > One neat solution would be to have each side emplace bombs wherever
> > > they want in the other side's country.
> >
> > I've been thinking of that! Since the U.S. can target every town
> > in Iraq, wouldn't it be symmetrical and fair for Iraq to have
> > smuggled in an A-bomb into every American town?

Didn't Leo Szilard make exactly that proposal in an SF short story? It was
in a collection called "the Voice of the Dolphins" if my memory is right.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jan 15 2003 - 17:58:29 MST