Re: PGP-secure mailing list?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Nov 23 1999 - 02:40:09 MST


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:

> And Sandberg, Jones, Spike - I'm an *ethical* fanatic.

LOL! Thanks, Eliezer, that made my day :-)

> Every time I
> visualize myself "meddling" and have an opportunity to check what the
> results would have been, I find that it would have gone wrong in one way
> or another. And that's the ultimate foundation of human ethics -
> knowing that you don't know enough to stop respecting the minds of others.

A good point.

> Besides which, as I've said before, I have no interest in taking over
> the world. I want *out* of the human condition, and any human taking
> over the world, even myself, is not progress toward that end. How on
> Earth could you bribe a Singularitarian? What the heck would you bribe
> one with?

An Omega Point?

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