Re: Libertarian theory breaking down

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 09:08:32 MST

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    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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