From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 15:30:42 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> >
> > 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...
Actually, I recall writing, possibly in the Singularitarian Principles, that
"Stupidity in the service of the Singularity is no virtue." Obviously I
agree with you about the virtues of extremism, but it has to be normative
extremism, not Standard Hunter-Gatherer-Style Distorted Human Extremism.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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