From: John Marlow (johnmarrek@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 00:27:21 MST
Again, quite possible. I myself make it a habit to
assume nothing.
john marlow
-- --- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote: > John Marlow wrote: > > > > Could be; as I said, it's a guess--but I suspect > > neither of knows the true capabilities of current > > detection gear. > > I myself know nothing about either the rad sources > or the detection > capability, but as a general rule, I'd note that > even where Government > Secrecy rears its ugly head, you can still make > statements like "The NSA > would need a 10,000-fold improvement over any > radiation detection > instrument known to science before they could detect > a moving warhead from > orbit." No, you don't know the true capabilities of > current detection > gear, but if finding warheads would take TL11 > detection gear you can > probably assume the NSA doesn't have it. > > (TL11 == "Tech Level 11". Contemporary civ is > around TL7, maybe TL8 in a > few places.) > > -- -- -- -- > -- > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky > http://singinst.org/ > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for > Artificial Intelligence __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
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