From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 20:54:51 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 01:05 PM 5/6/02 -0700, Gina cited Dan Gillmor:
>
> >*One of my roles at the Foresight Institute annual "senior
> >associates" meeting is to take up the far-left point on the
> >intelligence bell curve of people in the room. This is another way of
> >saying that the gathering typically includes some of the smartest
> >people I ever encounter. Foresight, as its name suggests, looks into
> >the future. Its main thrust is promoting nanotechnology, the science
> >of making and manipulating very small things - down to the molecular
> >and atomic level in its purest definition. (Small Times 5/6/02)
> >http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=3693
>
> which ends:
>
> < Drexler... quoted Gandhi: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
> Then they fight you. Then you win." >
>
> Or, more depressingly in Drexler's case:
>
> First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then
> you win. Then they ignore you.
Or in Gandhi's case: First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then
they fight you. Then you win. Then it turns out you were fighting the
wrong battle. Let's all hope like hell this doesn't happen with Drexler.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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