From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 16:09:45 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> >
> > Ziana Astralos wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, the article was in the May/June 1999 issue (so it
> > > was about a year and a half ago). It's by Steven Mann,
> > > and is entitled "Cyborg Seeks Community". It can be
> > > read online in full at
> > > http://www.techreview.com/articles/may99/mann.htm
> >
> > I say unto you all: Read this. It is truly, truly, truly weird.
>
> How so? It is quite wonderful. The guy is an obvious forerunner.
>
> - samantha
Yes... "truly weird" often implies "quite wonderful". Isn't that what I
was saying?
How odd, how terribly sad, that we live in a world where "weird" is taken
as negative.
Though I now notice that I've been using "odd" to mean "out of kilter".
Strange, isn't it?
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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