[extropy-chat] My Dilemma

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:27:57PM -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:

> Maybe the former are/were just a lot easier?  After all,
> we did get good sanitation in the west (finally) even
> before we invented the machine gun. (Talk about screwed
> incentives!)

I've heard people lauding Mr. Gatling for his contributions
to the art of surgery.
 
> I also agree that war probably retards wealth creation,

One could claim that, given

	http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

> even given the peculiar types of technology that seem
> to arise in 20th century wars (probably other tech
> would have come along sooner in place of them).

Again, I'm still waiting for a list of of goodies to come
out of the Iraq lunacy. Surely, given the price tag and the
number of dead people (100 k victims in the Lancet study
has turned out to be an estimate on the low side), it
must be something really really good.

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