From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 23:51:55 MDT
Damien Sullivan wrote:
>
> > > "Does using a Kinesis and riding a motorcycle and a recumbent bicycle make
> > > up the iconoclasm points that I lose for not using Dvorak?" -- a friend.
> >
> > If you're *asking someone else* how many iconoclasm points you have... oh,
> > never mind. The motorcycle doesn't count; the Kinesis is worth a couple
> > of points; the recumbent bicycle scores a lot of points but still not as
> > many as a Dvorak keyboard.
>
> Man, your irony detector needs an upgrade. He really doesn't care what you
> think of his iconoclasm. My friends thought you were being ironic, but I had
> to tell them it didn't look like it. Unless my detector needs the
> recalibration.
Nobody ever gets my Hofstadterian irony, a tradition going back to the
original "I am not an arrogant bastard" post.
> And I could argue with your choices, but don't think it's worth it.
Well, I was speaking generally.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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