From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Nov 29 1996 - 14:30:28 MST
> "unless stated otherwise, I am not telling you everything I know."
> - Who said that?
Me. For a good reason. On many occasions, I know things that are
drastically relevant and I keep my mouth shut, because the ideas
involved are:
1) Dangerous
2) Unpublished
3) Misleading without an extra 40K of explanation
4) Not backed up by experimental evidence
5) Likely to provoke a backlash
6) Aren't worth the effort of defending
7) Are beyond the ability of normal human beings to understand
8) Would provoke religious riots if explained
Got it?
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I know.
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