From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 16:26:36 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Ok, I'm going to bring up a topic and may get thrown
> back into the dust for doing so but here goes.
>
> Can anyone currently subscribed to the ExI list cite
> an actual example where due to the list discussion they
> "changed" their mind?
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote on Mar 22nd:
> Doug Thayer wrote:
>
>> Turkey invaded northern Iraq in 1993,1995, and 1997 (and possibly
>> after). See the following urls:
>> <http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/kilo/kurd1991.htm>
>> <http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/kurd-l/1997.Jun/0011.html>
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, these three invasions (40,000 troops each
>> time) did not result in a single security council resolution. So much
>> for "the breakdown of international law". It never functioned in the
>> first place. I guess if Turkey can invade Iraq willy-nilly, why not
>> the US?
>
> Okay, fair enough. I withdraw my example of Turkey's current presence
> as an instance of the breakdown of international law.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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