From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 12:03:26 MDT
hal@finney.org wrote:
>
> If you want to invest, invest in something which will grow in value
> as new technologies come into existence. Invest in the one resource
> which is self-motivated to increase its own value. Invest in companies,
> invest in productive enterprises.
>
> Invest in people.
>
> Hal
I'll go along with this, as long as it's clearly understood that trying
to create new brands of people, or develop technologies which improve
the previous brand of people, counts as a legitimate area of investment...
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
Member, Extropy Institute
Senior Associate, Foresight Institute
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