From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 23:41:42 MST
Nicq MacDonald wrote:
>
> > I know everything about you. I know your true name... Anton. I know that
> > you're an only child. I know where you live in Sioux Falls, South
> > Dakota. I know about the time you stole a book from your grade school
> > library. I know that your mother secretly wanted a girl and that she felt
> > guilty about it, which is why she always bought you those macho toys for
> > Christmas presents, and I also know that she did love you and that she had
> > no cause to feel guilty.
>
> <shivers>
>
> My middle name is Anton. Four years ago, I wrote some articles for a few
> minor zines under the name N. Anton MacDonald.
>
> I am from Sioux Falls. Where in the hell did you pull that out of?
>
> However, you didn't get the whole story. My mother may have wanted a girl-
> my parents were either going to name me Nicholas or Nicolette- but I'm not
> an only child, and I never stole a book from my grade school library. Well,
> I kept a few of them longer than I was supposed to... especially the ones
> with completed BASIC scripts in them, and the one on creating terrariums...
> but that's it! ;)
Damn. Guess I blew my bluff. Well, it seemed like a good try at the
time. I was also going to say that you were born under the sign of Leo -
figured I had one chance in twelve of being right. Then I deleted it,
since I figured I had one chance in twelve of being right.
Good thing, too, since you're a Capricorn.
> > You read all that Aleister Crowley, and then look for simple little
> > physical explanations when something marvelous comes along. Unweave a
> > rainbow...
>
> Well, considering the quote that I frequently use as a sig, that one is
> obvious enough.
Huh. I didn't even notice that. Well, despite the sig, your favorite
Crowley book is "Magick in Theory and Practice", not "Original Sin", which
you feel is lacking in depth. And you're also a fan of Peter Carroll.
-- -- -- -- --
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:32:19 MST