"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> >
> > So long as the vast majority of people tend to be rational, self
> > centered, and stubbornly independent most of the time, I think
> > impossible is a good way to describe things. Making war so expensive a
> > proposition that there is no market for it makes it statistically as
> > impossible as another big bang.
>
> Historically, this view pops up every now and then... usually right before
> a very large war. In fact, I could make a fairly good case that this view
> was, in itself, responsible for World War II. As I recall this view was
> also prevalent right before World War I.
No, the prevailing view was that war was morally obsolete, that humans
had advanced to the point where our differences could be solved by
negotiation, so that we negotiated a law against war prior to WWII....
you can't legislate technology...
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