From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 20:03:45 MST
"S.J. Van Sickle" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> > Oh. That's an odd comment, I could have sworn a tenth of the US population
> > was black.
>
> In the US, most golf courses are private clubs, and, as such, were just
> about the last institutions to racially integrate. If I'm not mistaken,
> some still essentially are, though they would deny it.
There is, of golfers, an ancient tradition that they are aging executive
WASPs clad in hideous striped shirts. Hence the "humor", such as it is.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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