From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 11:16:53 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky"
>
> > Do you really think that kind of world, that systemic process for dealing with
> > new technologies, would yield better results than the nonviolent version?
>
> No matter how you handle it, someone will come along and accuse you of violence,
> aggression, evil, or wanting to kill everyone who doesn't agree with you.
>
> So, you might as well do it your own way, and take your chances.
There are deeper reasons for ethics than the fear of what other people will
say about it.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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