From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 07:47:24 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> >1) Ask her how she feels about the Tortured Norns website.
>
>No, but don't you see...? This would trigger instant *guilt by contagion*.
>We're not talking logic here, just a kind of visceral shriek.
>...
> >3) "Some of the smartest and most altruistic people I know, maybe the
> >best and brightest of the whole world, are embarked on the quest to
> >create a synthetic soul
>
>They're deluded. She JUST KNOWS.
In a situation like this your main audience is the other people in
the room. She may be beyond logic, but the rest of them are hopefully
not.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
Asst. Prof. Economics, George Mason University
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