Steve Nichols wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:23:27 -0400
> > From: "Stephan Vladimir Bugaj" <stephan@bugaj.com>
> > Subject: RE: Posthuman Politics
> >
> > majority of an entire country's population. Strategies that require a
> > majority of a population to participate have been known to succeed. The
> > American Revolution succeeded. Martin Luther King succeeded. But
> > anything on that massive a scale takes billions of dollars, a core group
> > of activists willing to devote their entire lives to the problem, and even
> > then it still takes a generation to set up the initial conditions if they
> > haven't been set up already.
This quote should be attributed to Eliezer Yudkowsky, not Stephan Bugaj.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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