From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 13:37:53 MDT
Randy Smith wrote:
>
> An interesting piece! Looks like business/science might finally be gearing
> up for the genetic engineering battle: Last night I was watching some of
> that TV news magazine that has Barbara Walters as the host (20-20?).
> One of their most interesting reporters is John Stossel. I am sure some of
> you here are familiar with him, as he is the only "openly" libertarian
> reporter in the major TV news media (besides Krulwich?).
Now *this* is just amusing, if it happens. The Luddites allege that a
nonexistent multi-billion-dollar PR consortium is promoting GE, as part of
the Luddite effort to smear any technology more advanced than agriculture
- in fact, come to think of it, they finally *did* work their way around
to agriculture - and the Luddites then proceed to launch a gigantic
international effort to smear GM foods. So business, in an effort to
defend itself, actually does start organizing. As a side effect, Pro-Act
gets a billion dollars in funding. Could be fun...
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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