From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 27 1999 - 03:54:00 MDT
Doug Jones wrote:
>
> Eliezer wrote:
>
> > I don't demand that others live as I do. The wise choice for a
> > Specialist isn't necessarily the wise choice for anyone else, even a
> > different kind of Specialist. But if people start going all
> > "oh-I'm-wiser" on me and spouting back the wisdom of the sages as seen
> > on TV, then yes, I'm going to be annoyed.
>
> Eliezer, I apologize for my condescending tone. It was rude and
> inconsiderate, and I was generalizing too much. I wish I'd stuck
> with jesting, or better yet, not made my first wiseass post.
Methinks the man doth apologize too much - I'm sorry for snapping at
you. I shouldn't take out my annoyance with the last three hundred
people on one person.
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