From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 08:45:06 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 09:15 am, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I meant, of course, Sunday May 12th, not Sunday May 9th. Just
> > > once I
> > > wish I could get a chat announcement right the first time. Here's the
> > > full information again:
> >
> > Drat! I can't make it. That is mother's day, and my partner and I are
> > taking our maternal DNA sources to dinner.
>
> OUch. Well, at least you didn't call them Oxlotyl Tanks...
Axlotl tanks. Incidentally, our family refers to my own erstwhile creators
as "parental units", as in the "maternal parental unit" and "paternal
parental unit". This seemed so normal within our family that at one point I
casually used the term in a phone conversation, after which, apparently,
questions were asked.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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