From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 22:34:37 MDT
Barbara Lamar wrote:
>
> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > I share your repugnance, but not because it's "greed"--that's a
> > noble thing.
>
> I'll avoid doing business with you, Mr. Crocker, if you believe that "an
> excessive desire to acquire or possess, as wealth or power, beyond what one
> needs or deserves" is a noble thing.
Modern-day billionaires have made a very small amount of progress toward a
reasonable standard of living; enough to show that progress is possible, but
not enough to envy.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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