From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 14:37:29 MDT
On 8/31/2000 Eliezer S. Yudkowsky you wrote:
> > What fraction of "random" people who one of us forces to become familiar
> > with these concepts comes to endorse them? ... spouses, friends,
> coworkers,
>
>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.
So, since you seem to think you know things, should we watch out for you?
Elizer's experience is very far from my own.
Also, I think there tends to be a positive correlation between people who
know things and people who think they know things. And it is a bad sign
about an idea if the people who know things tend to be the people who don't
like it.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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