From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 08:03:21 MST
Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
>
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote (26.2.2002/19:09) :
> >
> > (Socrates: ****; Plato: *)
>
> This like admiring a character in a novel, and finding him very
> intelligent, but despising the author of the novel, and thinking he's
> an idiot.
Why? Because the so-called "Socratic dialogues" were written by Plato? I'm
not talking about Plato's fictional mouthpiece; I'm talking about the
original Socrates.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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