From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 07:51:31 MST
John K Clark wrote:
> "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com> Wrote:
>
>>Why on earth do you prattle on as if the only alternative
>>to doing whatever we please, whenever we please is to
>>be a total non-entity?
>
> Why settle for second best, it seems to me the ability to do whatever we
> please whenever we please is quite wonderful, especially if the things we
> do are good, like getting rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan a year ago.
"We"? I don't see you making the decisions. Anyway, no, the ability for
the US government to do whatever it pleases whenever it pleases is not
necessarily a good thing for either you, or Earth. Or even the US
government, if the actions are stupid. And it seems to me that they are.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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