From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 16:45:20 MST
You know, it just *may* be possible that in a perfect world Bill Gates
would not be worth $50 billion - or rather that the ratio of his worth to
yours would not be on the order of 1,000,000:1 or whatever it is. And it
could also be that saying "Bill Gates doesn't *deserve* it" is a very
dangerous thing to say, because if you say that, you may be tempted to
take it away from him, or try to, and in so doing, establish a system
whose overall effect is much, much worse than what you replaced.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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