From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> I wonder how much _The Living Daylights_ will be shown on US
> television after this. Making the mujahedin heroes might not have
> been the smartest thing in the long run, and their british-educated
> leader in the film might very well have been modelled on Bin Laden.
How do you find the time to watch the boob tube?
I guess the only way the Afghanistan Mujahedin could still be a hero would be
if it turns over Bin Laden to the US.
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Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
regressive force now operating in society.
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