From: Nicholas Bostrom (bostrom@mail.ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 29 1997 - 11:27:42 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> A retreat to space is the most likely method of negating the sea's strategic
> advantages, leaving the local tactical advantages of home ground. Even if the
> goo can fling unlimited missiles after you, they'll be defeated, and their
> material consumed, only adding to your size.
How do you defeat a nuke with detectors on the outside that detonates
it is it is attacked by nanomachines?
zip
I don't believe in the story about launching large parts of the earth
into independent orbits.
Nicholas Bostrom
London School of Economics
Department of Philosphy, Logic and Scientifc Method
email: n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.hedweb.com/nickb
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