From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 14:23:19 MST
xgl wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> >
> > So it is like the proverb "the more things change, the more things stay the
> > same."
>
> actually, it's more like "the more things change, the more we tend
> to notice the things that don't." =)
How about "the more things change, the more sentimentalist Luddites trying
not to think about it will pick out something that gives them warm fuzzy
feelings and insist that it stays the same, like a frightened
five-year-old swearing eternal friendship with a teddy bear that ends up
in a dumpster three years later."
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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