From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 10:45:46 MDT
"D. den Otter" wrote:
>
> The
> Singularity is coming, and NO FLESH SHALL BE SPARED!
You are, of course, factually incorrect, but we've already run those debates.
> Actually, something like the above, maybe in
> combination with Vinge's famous quote, a skull and
> some 0110101001/CgACTCACTATAg stuff might make a nice
> t-shirt...
Ditch the skull. Primates, including us, have built-in fear reactions to
skulls, because it's generally a bad idea to hang around places where others
of your species have died - whatever killed them might still be around and
able to hurt you.
Besides which, a standard Galactic Shining Human Figure transcendence-shot
does a better job of conveying the theory.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/home.html
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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