From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 00:35:55 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Tymes [mailto:wingcat@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Friday, 5 September 2003 3:43 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: The right 10 people
>
>
> --- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > I reckon I could scare a few kiddies with a bit of
> > creative devils
> > advocacy, but consider this 10 people is still
> > rather a lot to have
> > a secret and to work together. Also it takes a
> > person time to
> > acquire power, be it power from military or elected
> > position,
> > power from knowledge or other forms.
>
> Also consider: 10 people simply wouldn't have the
> bandwidth to tend to the details of controlling much
> of the world. They would necessarily have to act
> through others - and barring AI (which, at that level,
> could arguably be counted as more "people"), would
> these extra humans not become junior but still valid
> participants in that which has taken over the world?
The 10 might be able to direct others without giving them enough of the big
picture to figure out what is going on...
Emlyn
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