On 5/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eugen Leitl</b> <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</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;">
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:30:59PM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:<br><br>> The general trend since the Stone Age has been for the minimum group size<br>> for effective action (for both good and harm) to always increase with
<br>> advancing technology. Technophiles have tended to assume without evidence<br><br>Whoa. I would like to see the reasoning behind this claim. It takes many<br>people to build a nuke, but it takes a single person to detonate it.
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The destruction of Hiroshima in 1945 took the cooperation of millions
of people. The (more thorough) destruction of Kiev in 1240 took mere
thousands.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Designer MDR pathogens or other self-replicating malware package<br>even more wallop in a smaller envelope.
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In the stories we make up, yes. Not in real life. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You sure can build an atlatl, but how many can you kill with it, before<br>being overwhelmed yourself?
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Comparable to the numbers you can kill with a bomb or a machine gun.<br>
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