From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 09:56:53 MDT
Greg Burch wrote:
>
> This list has attracted a majority of people from the
> sci-tech side of the "great divide" since its inception and also attracts a
> pretty young crowd. It also has a lot of subscribers who've read a lot of
> science fiction, in which radical plot devices get thrown around like game
> pieces in a simulation. None of these factors is conducive to engendering a
> high level of discussion about social, political and cultural issues on
> short notice in the face of an emotionally shocking crisis.
Oh? Really?
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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