Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Alex F. Bokov wrote:
>
> > If you were a terrorist, and you had several kilos of stolen Russian
> > anthrax those mean FBI guys wouldn't let you load onto a crop duster,
>
> We have zero evidence that they have Biopreparat stuff stockpiled.
Are we discussing the latest in string theory? Are we preparing a grant
proposal for peer review? Hypotheses that predict thousands of dead
people do not require experimental confirmation, just a significant
Bayesian prior.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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