From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 03:46:07 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Oh, why bother. I really am starting to get a bit frustrated over here. I've
> been talking about this for weeks and it doesn't seem to have any effect
> whatsoever. Nobody is even bothering to distinguish between subgoals and
> supergoals. You're all just playing with words.
>
Hey! Wait a second. If you are going to be a leader in the greatest
project in human history (or in any project for that matter) you have to
learn and learn damn fast to be able to motivate and enroll people. You
don't do that by voicing your frustration every few attempts at
explanation or by effectively washing your hands of people when they ask
questions or accussing them of either stupidity or "playing with
words". You may believe the AI Sysop is the only viable solution and
you might even be right. But you badly need some human beings enrolled
in the dream for this thing to ever get built. You need other human
beings to understand enough to keep you from getting lynched or shut
down for trying such a thing.
You are so brilliant is so many ways but I think you have a lot to learn
about reaching and working with people. The success of the project
depends hugely on you learning that.
- samantha
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