From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 06:04:27 MDT
Greg Burch wrote:
>
> <**> I've seen some great new sound bites in the discussion here in
> the last couple of days. My usual one is to quickly analogize it to
> Pascal's Wager which, it seems, most people have an instinctive
> knowledge and appreciation of, even if they don't know the name for
> it.
It might work at the law firm, but experience on SL4 suggests that you
should never mention Pascal's Wager to transhumanists. :)
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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