From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 00:32:37 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> But things for me, in the emotional area, are always pretty
> black and white, and in 1998 I just couldn't stand it any
> more. There was, as one might say, simply too much cognitive
> dissonance. I won't go into why here, but I couldn't call
> myself an American any longer. Worse, not only am I a man
> without a country, I am a man without a people.
Giving up your country doesn't have to mean that you no longer have a
people. It can mean that the group you identify with is no longer limited
to one country.
Sincerely,
sentience@pobox.com.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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