Re: Military intelligence

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 15:39:23 MST


> D. Broderick wrote:
>
> > It's interesting (and depressing) to consider that this list has a
> > mean IQ of perhaps 130, with plenty of us at 150 or above. Yet with
> > topics like this one, much of the level of debate is at the bar-room
> > brawl or barracks posturing level. Dog help us when nano or AI really
> > start to kick in as issues wrestled with by the rest of the planet.

Yeah, but even the silly posturing is better: on what other list
would we ridicule a man's politics for enslaving his mitochondria?

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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