Re: Afghanistan after the war

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 20:54:15 MST


Technotranscendence wrote:
>
> On Friday, November 09, 2001 5:18 PM Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> >
> > Nation-building is the only strategy that ever worked for America. It is
> > only natural to suppose that America will never use it again. The only
> > hope for the Afghani is that the war drags on until 2005 and we get a
> > better President.
>
> Can you give any examples of nation-building working? What exactly do you
> mean by it?

Post-WWII. Marshall Plan. Germany. Japan. You know, those two highly
industrialized liberal democracies, allies of the USA, that used to be our
blood enemies sixty years ago?

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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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