Re: Energy and "the Clash of Civilizations" -- a policy thought problem

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 04:29:19 MDT


Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> > At 12:06 AM 9/29/01 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
> > >
> > >Lots and lots and lots of nuclear power plants.
> >
> > Each of them protected by a force field and ray guns, to keep the next lot
> > of terrorist-hijacked planes at bay.
>
> There will be no more terrorist hijacked planes. That is not
> difficult to guarantee. At least much less difficult than force
> fields and ray guns.

I don't know that a passenger mass attack is an absolute protection. I
can think of at least two ways to hijack a plane anyway.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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