Re: Marvin Minsky and Eliezer Yudkowsky

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 18:40:15 MST


Eliezer writes:
> Word has now reached me that there are multiple rumors circulating about a
> clash between Marvin Minsky and Eliezer Yudkowsky at a Foresight event.

You're not the first one this has happened to. Apparently Minksy pulled
a similiar stunt on Michael Butler at Extro 3, in effect telling him to
sit down and shut up. Here is some discussion from the archives, with
different people's impressions of what happened:

http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/1391.html
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/1401.html
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/1404.html
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/1425.html
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/1428.html

Maybe while we're working on Friendly AI we could put a little effort
into Friendly AI researchers.

Hal



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