From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 19:46:38 MST
"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.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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