Re: TERRORISM: Seriousness and potential strategies

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2001 - 17:16:25 MDT


Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Miriam English wrote:
>
> > CMOS technology has produced incredibly small, lightweight, cheap,
> > electronic cameras. Plastic lenses are used in disposable cameras...
>
> I'm absolutely exasperated at the amount of futuristic or plain wacko
> schemes proposed as solutions.

Likewise.

As an advocate of solving long-term social problems through enormously
powerful technology, I think it reflects badly on the field when people
are completely, totally unrealistic about the likelihood of solving
immediate social problems through weak technology.

> At this point we should abundantly realize that we don't know what the
> fuck we're talking about, with the possible exception of some amateur
> analysts and veterans of military campagnes. Trying to make informed
> decisions in the face of such background ignorance is absolutely futile.

That's why I've been talking about minds as opposed to MEMS surveillance
devices; my specialty is the former.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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