[ExI] Belief in Market Efficiency

[hkhenson]

At 05:55 PM 1/31/2009, Olga  wrote:
>From: "hkhenson" <hkhenson at rogers.com>
>To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:03 PM
>
>>Equal rights under law is one thing, but if there is one thing we 
>>do know it is that people are *not* equal in other directions.
>
>"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of 
>men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, 
>government will of itself decay." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

That's not likely to happen.  My best guess is that government will 
"decay" when human are no longer the smartest entities around.  I 
think the best we can hope for is the status of cats relative to 
those in charge.

That's assuming we don't transfer our vices as well as our virtues to 
our successors.

I don't know if my view of the singularity is optimistic or pessimistic.

Keith