Re: globalization of fear

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 14:40:57 MDT


Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> Okay, I confess, I was being deliberately provocative in my
> response. It's pretty clear you saw right through it. You were
> supposed to wait awhile until everybody had finished screaming at
> me though. ;)

Brian D. Williams, if you do not understand the frickin' REAL-LIFE RISKS
of US citizens talking about nuking Mecca, you are an idiot.

> I was inspired by the Honored Matres of "ChapterHouse Dune" who
> would scorch whole planets to get one offender.

They're the bad guys. Did you forget that part?

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


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