Re: Brin story in Nature

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 11:33:06 MST


hal@finney.org wrote:

> Robin Hanson, <rhanson@gmu.edu>, writes:
> > David Brin has a short story in the latest Nature,
> > where he mentions the "Great Filter" and names a
> > character after me (sort of).
> >
> > Nature Contents: 16 March 2000
> > 16 March 2000 Volume 404 No. 6775
> > http://www.nature.com/nature/
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > futures
> > ------------------------------
> > Reality check p. 229
> > DAVID BRIN
>
> FYI you can read this article if you log in to the online site with
> username "cypherpunks" and password "writecode". (At least, I could.)
> This is a convention widely used on the web for people to create shared
> accounts. I don't know if someone had to pay for this though.

While its interesting, if this is something he believes in, it explains why he
is so narrow minded IMHO.

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