From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 15:07:04 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > I respectfully disagree.
> >
> > An army of illiterate entropic fundamentalists could certainly put
> > a major crimp in our plans, hopes, and dreams...
>
> Know what's even worse? An army of illiterate extropic fundamentalists. I
> agree; this thread is dead and it's time to kill it. Everything "could" put
> a crimp in everything else; we live in an entangled world where anything can
> suddenly kill us at any time. That's what prioritized risks are for. I say
> let's go back to discussing Leon Kass or Bill Joy.
"Extremism in defense of extropy is no vice, moderation in pursuit of a
transhumanist future is no virtue."
You can quote me on that third hand paraphrasing...
Mike Lorrey
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