[extropy-chat] My Dilemma

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:08:17PM +0800, BillK wrote:

> Similarly the expense and the deaths of the Iraq war cannot be
> justified by the new tech that will come out of that war effort.

I'm glad we're on the same page, then.
 
> But the new tech will still appear regardless.

So you're agreeing that ROI on war is horribly low,
and you'd get two or three orders of magnitude of 
better return on investment, if you'd avoid a war, 
and invest directly into R&D instead?

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