Re: Thinking about the future...
Robin Hanson (hanson@dosh.hum.caltech.edu)
Tue, 27 Aug 96 11:08:01 PDT
N.Bostrom@lse.ac.uk asks me:
>Is your idea roughly this: That the values humans have are relatively
>constant, or, to the extent the vary, are largely determined by social
>and cultural factors; and that therefore the most significant
>determinant of the behaviour of powerful agents is the societal
>framework in which they live and act?
No. The idea is that legal and military deterence are robust
mechanisms for preventing violence across a wide variety of
situations, and in particular across a wide variety of values of the
agents involved.
Robin Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/