From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 25 1996 - 17:57:36 MST
> Another sure way of revealing the sacred cows is to try to joke
> about them. If there is anything a sacred cow cannot stand, it is
> humour (at least about itself, joking about others sacred cows is
> quite acceptable). The best way to reveal someone to be a fanatic or
> memeoid is to see if he or she can joke about his or her beliefs.
Do I qualify? I see the Holocaust as a horrendous tragedy, and if
someone smaller than me made a joke about it, I'd punch his lights out.
--
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.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:35:55 MST