From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 10:32:15 MST
"Dickey, Michael F" wrote:
>
> I am not following the Philidelphia reference....? 380,000 deaths on
> Christmas this year? Did I miss something?
This is a clever joke on Lee's part. Since Lee Corbin was one of those
arrested by the FBI in the panic that followed Dec. 25th, 2001, he's
pretending that it was because he posted about Philadelphia before he
could possibly have known. However, Lee Corbin never actually made such a
post, and was swept up by the Scouring of America for completely unrelated
reasons.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Selected Historical Catastrophes by City:
>
> City Country Deaths Date
> ------------- -------- -------- --------------
> New York U.S. 5000 Sep. 11, 2001
> Hiroshima Japan 70000 Aug. 6, 1945
> Tokyo Japan 110000 Mar. 11, 1945
> Dresden Germany 165000 Feb. 13, 1945
> Nanking China 300000 Dec. 13, 1937
> Philadelphia U.S. 380000 Dec. 25, 2001
> Carthage Tunisia 450000 Spring, 146 B.C.
> Leningrad U.S.S.R. 1500000 -- 1944
>
> Thus the fears of some New Yorkers---that their city will
> never recover---though understandable, are not well-founded.
>
> Lee Corbin
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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