From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 02:13:54 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Then all hell broke loose...
> Pretty soon world war 3 broke out there...
> A few harsh words were exchanged...
Note to self - if any discussion of racism or sexism comes up, on any list
I moderate, *bzzt* it instantly.
Problem solved! It *is* that simple!
Lists are *allowed to stay on-topic*. If something is controversial, even
if there is a moral obligation that someone somewhere think about it
today, there are other lists. Not every issue needs to be discussed in
every place. Racism is not a nonissue, I salute the people who fight it,
and I am proud to this day of the few very minor blows I've struck in the
battle on racism. But it is not an issue that the lists I moderate need
to handle.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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