From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 13:55:23 MDT
Mark Walker wrote:
>
> From: "Spike Jones" <spike66@attglobal.net>
> > > >This post is going to haunt us all - it is in the archives...Damien
> > > Broderick
> >
> I am not so sure. I think if anyone brings this up the "defence" can be that
> by and large the list did not even give the proposal rational consideration.
That's hardly a defense! Especially to the proposal that "ends justify
the means" logic is implied by the Extropian Principles! A good defense
is that the proposal was instantly and rationally refuted (ahem), and that
the error was shown to be a generic ethical error that had nothing to do
with the particulars of transhumanism.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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