Re: less sex, more brains!

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 05:00:39 MDT


Osher Doctorow wrote:
> From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com, Tues. July 16, 2002 7:11PM
>
> I agree with Eliezer and Vanessa. So do many very religious Buddhists,
> Catholics, Jews, Hindus, and a number of very knowledge-oriented scientists.
> In fact, it is well known that a tendency exists for very abstract
> knowledge-oriented scientists to be relatively uninterested in sex and other
> materialistic things.

I don't think sex is wrong in any way whatever, nor am I *uninterested*
in romance. I simply have an enormously higher priority at this
particular moment in human history.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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