Re: Sainthood

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Dec 21 1996 - 18:32:42 MST

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> Yesterday Eliezer wrote,
>
> > The only reason I'm still here is to serve humanity.
>
> Today he wrote,
>
> > "extropy" is starting to sound too much like sainthood.
>
> Are you telling us everything you know?

Yes, I'm aware of that little trap and am doing my best to counter it.
I don't believe that working for humanity gives me any right of command
- it's just an ethical makeover so I can get out of bed in the morning.

-- 
         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 think I know.

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