On 09/26/2014 07:41 AM, Ben Goertzel via AGI wrote:
>
>
>     One passing comment regarding your specific scenario, compare
>     Brazil's nuclear program with Iran's nuclear program. Their
>     situations are nearly identical - neither has signed the nuclear
>     non-proliferation treaty,
>
Correction:  Iran is signatory to UN Treaty (1968).  Has been for
DECADES.  (It is Israel that NEVER  acceded to this treaty.)  Brazil
acceded to the treaty in 1998.  (For a quick reference
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons>
).
>
>     both claim to be developing for peaceful purposes, both have a lot
>     of nuclear material, and by all accounts neither is weaponizing.
>     However, no one is talking about sanctions against Brazil. I
>     suspect the same forces that have now arrayed against Iran would
>     also array against Azerbaijan in your scenario.
>
>
> Hmmm..... But, Iran has threatened to attack other countries.  In my
> scenario, the AGI host country is not threatening anybody. 
>
> And anyway, nobody is attacking Iran now, right?   They're making
> sanctions against Iran, but a clever AGI might not mind that so much
> anyway; it could probably find ways to work around them...   And in
> the end I think some countries would violate any such sanctions and
> trade with the AGI host country for purely economic reasons...
>
> Still, there are obviously a lot of possible scenarios to consider !! ...
>  
>
>
>     Thanks again for your excellent article.
>
>
> Thanks for the appreciation ;)
>
> ben
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