From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 19:42:37 MST
Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> > There's a *little* more to it than just that, you know.
>
> Oh?
>
> I'd love to know a few tricks!
This *is not* stalking. It only becomes stalking when you actually pick
up a phone.
> Here, just to make it interesting, I bet you won't find anything
> (interesting) about me that isn't any of the following:
You're right, if you list every possible interesting fact about yourself,
there's not much left for the Game of Knowing. After that, it isn't fun
any more. It's simply a 'Net search contest. If you just say: "When
will I graduate?" and I say "2001", that's not "stalking", as you call it;
more like a quiz.
The whole point of the Game is to achieve surprise, casual reference,
creepiness. You've been an actor, so you should understand the importance
of preserving the image of casualness - just like maintaining a "morning
shadow" style beard and mustache.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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