From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 14:03:04 MDT
Robin Hanson wrote:
>
> It seems to me that many of the people who dislike these concepts have
> taken some time to become familiar with them. What fraction of "random"
> people who one of us forces to become familiar with these concepts
> comes to endorse them? We should by now have enough experience telling
> our spouses, friends, coworkers, etc. about these ideas to estimate this.
> If the fraction is small, it becomes harder to attribute most negative
> reactions to simple ignorance and risk-averse avoidance of the unfamiliar.
In my experience, most ordinary mortals exposed to the Singularity get it on
the first try. It's the people who think they know something that you've got
to watch out for.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/home.html
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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