From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 14:18:37 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> You may have missed Lee's assertion that men should be saved before
> women because they are more valuable. You may have missed Gina Miller's
> suggestion that she was offended and might drop out if that is the
> viewpoint around here. You may have missed others' assertions that race
> is a valid determinant in choosing who should be saved first. This has
> sparked some controversy in the list, and has even spawned some threads
> questioning whether logical fallacies are really rules against
> politically incorrect though and whether the extropian principles are
> merely opinions from the 1980s that have no relevance or value to our
> opinions today.
I think that's what's happening is that the people who would usually chime
in against suggestions like these are just getting tired. It looks like a
downward spiral to me, but I hope not.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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