From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 23:50:08 MDT
You know, I'm glad to know that I am not the only one in the world who,
for some reason that neither I nor Lee Corbin can ever understand, manages
to completely piss off some people.
I don't get it.
I really, really don't get it.
I thought I knew what I was doing that was pissing people off, and that
I'd made a deliberate decision to keep doing it. But Lee isn't doing any
of those things and he's getting exactly some of the same negative
reactions I sometimes get.
Some people, like me, have absolutely no idea what Lee could be doing
wrong. Others all seem to not only see something horribly wrong with Lee
but to basically agree on what it is.
What on Earth is going on? Total bafflement is a rare experience for me.
Could someone please give a totally rational, totally abstract analysis
of what they see wrong with Lee, without anger, or trying to persuade me
to their side, or indignation at what Lee is doing wrong? Just a
description to a member of an alien species - maybe Lee and I are both
missing key brainware - who totally, totally doesn't get why *anyone*
would be ticked at Lee? I understand people getting ticked off at me,
Ifni knows I work at it. But Lee? What the heck did he *do*? What's
going on here?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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