From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 21:51:31 MST
Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> > I want to, around once per ten minutes whenever I'm not at home,
> > spontaneously emit a nickel. The nickel should have a chance of striking
> > any given person within 20 meters which is proportional to the inverse of
> > the square of the distance between us.
>
> I tried this out for a while. You'd think it'd be a good idea, but it
> mostly just pissed off passers-by.
It really doesn't work unless you use ecash. That was kind of the whole
point here. I just happen to think that, socioeconomically, people should
behave a bit more like fundamental particles.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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