From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 09:08:32 MST
Amara Graps wrote:
>
> BTW, A central government.. of any kind.. provides a big fat target
> for any kind of aggression. If your society consists of a network
> of inconsequential nodes, then where do any possible aggressors
> attack? A network of nodes have little need of a defense against
> organized external aggression.
I'm not sure that's true, Amara.
Heard on #sl4:
<yed> the 'war' is so weird - the west with its high-tech just rolling
through the low-tech arabs.
<rav3n> yes, it's quite appropriately called the war /on/ Iraq
<rav3n> as opposed to 'with'
The Iraqi military at this point could probably be quite accurately
described as a network of inconsequential nodes.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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