SilasBarta comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: RobinZ 11 March 2010 05:25PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 12 March 2010 08:13:41PM *  1 point [-]

Why flamebait? I stated a very well-known fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Urgent_Fury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Just_Cause

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_sponsored_regime_change

ETA: to tell the truth, until I dug up that last Wikipedia page just now for purposes of argument, I still had no clear idea how much this happened. And give these people autonomous killer robots? In the name of developing Friendly Intelligence?

Comment author: SilasBarta 12 March 2010 08:21:23PM 4 points [-]

1) Politics is the mind killer, 2) Agree denotationally but not connotationally