From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 07:39:47 MST
Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> The headache I've got with the whole Iraq mess -- speaking as a
> non-American -- is that the planned US invasion of Iraq is clearly an
> attempt to gain a choke-hold on the remaining unexploited oil fields, and
> looks like a first step towards establishing an imperial hegemony. (And
> it's being really badly managed, in terms of PR directed at the rest of
> the world; from over here, the sabre-rattling emanating from the White
> House is distastefully reminiscent of the noises coming out of Germany in
> Summer 1939 with respect to Poland.)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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