[extropy-chat] My Dilemma

[steven mckenzie]

imagine the same drive to have a "WAR" on poverty,
world hunger, lack of inteligence,
a new space race to move some of our population to
space colonies


--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
> http://leitl.org
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