From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 15:14:23 MDT
Let's cut to the chase. Would you rather that the US invade all countries
with squalid dictatorships in an attempt to impose order? Or would you
prefer to maintain international stability before the Singularity and hope
that not too many people die? Both options are morally uncomfortable, and
I'm starting to get fed up with people's inability to confront uncomfortable
choices, so I cynically predict that most people on this list will advocate
some halfhearted ineffective technological solution which couldn't be
implemented for another ten years as a surrogate for confronting either of
these two options directly. Incidentally, are any of you under the illusion
that by arguing about this, you are "doing something"?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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