From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 01:16:24 MDT
Doug Jones wrote:
>
> spike66 wrote:
> >
> > What is this cigar thing that keeps coming up? Call me Edith
> > Bunker, but Im in the dark on that. Im not hip, I do not grok.
>
> Allegedly, Sigmund Freud was once confronted with his cigar habit, and
> was asked if maybe *he* had a phallic attachment to them. To which he
> stiffly replied, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
This completely destroys the charm of the phrase for me. So this is not a
rare flash of rationality on Freud's part? Freud did not allow for any
loopholes in his idiot theory until someone tried to apply it to HIM, heaven
forbid? I would like to say something derogatory about Freud at this point
but nothing I can think of seems to be nasty enough.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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