On 5/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com">lcorbin@tsoft.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was speaking of circumstances in which one aberrant<br>individual has the ability to kill many thousands of<br>local sentients. In lieu of the Transparent Society,<br>I don't know of any other solution.</blockquote><div>
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The general trend since the Stone Age has been for the minimum group
size for effective action (for both good and harm) to always increase
with advancing technology. Technophiles have tended to assume without
evidence that this trend will reverse in the future. Robin Hanson does
a good job of explaining why this belief actually constitutes evidence
not about the future but about our own psychology:<br>
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<a href="http://hanson.gmu.edu/dreamautarky.html">http://hanson.gmu.edu/dreamautarky.html</a><br>
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