[ExI] Under the libertarian yoke

[The Avantguardian]

--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> And you are so *sure* of what you're saying, that you would
> without telling anyone, unleash your awful bug that would 
> destroy so much energy?  (Please say a clear "yes" or "no".)

No Lee. Why would I do that? Rafal asked me to brainstorm a way to stop global
warming under a bizarre constraint of "advanced libertarian aliens". But if
someone came to me with some pretty steep consulting fees, I might come up with
a design. I myself am no altruist so I certainly wouldn't design it, let alone
use it, for free.

In any case my idea is out there in the noosphere now so it really matters very
little what I personally do from here on out. 

> Stuart, you really, really need to read "The Black Swan".

You are right. I have been meaning to. 

> And woe unto us when someone gets into power who
> things he or she knows exactly what the future will hold.
> What Stalin and Mao did will be nothing in comparison.

Lee it is impossible to know what the future holds because the future is
contigent on the choices made by billions of people and many times that more
quantum particles. Its just clouds of probability. Besides I am about as far
from power as a person can get and still put food on the table.


Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Life is the sum of all your choices."  
Albert Camus


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