[extropy-chat] Re: Recipe for Destruction - Joy/Kurzweil NYTimes Op-Ed

[Samantha Atkins]

The trouble is that you are very short on the how this can be  
accomplished.  Clearly scientists cannot banish everyone's worry and  
convince everyone of what is and is not of concern or sufficiently  
controlled.   Clearly the majority are easily swayed by fear mongers  
and power-lusters.  So without strong anti-politicalization of  
research and scientific knowledge by those of us with some measure of  
understanding the forces of paranoia and other darkness are likely to  
prevail.

- samantha

On Oct 18, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:

> On 10/18/05, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do you think putting MORE restrictions on scientists
> will make them LESS likely to use their knowledge to
> attempt to overthrow a system whose corruption is more
> obvious to them than to the average citizen?
>
> Did you read the 80% of my post where I explained at length that  
> one of the reasons I'm troubling to say all this is precisely that  
> I think the world would be safer if we could _avoid_ a situation  
> where the public decides it needs yet more government regulation to  
> forcibly prevent scientists doing dangerous things?
>
> - Russell
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