From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 10:21:46 MDT
Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>
> It's not a reactor, because reactors are usually associated
> with being critical. He was just a kid fooling around. Unless
> he ingested some of the isotopes (judging from the description,
> he did sound like a sloppy experimenter) nobody even got hurt.
>
> He could have done real damage if he built a particle
> accelerator. Luckily, wunderkind he was not.
For Ifni's sake, Eugene, what does a "kid" have to do to qualify as a
wunderkind these days? Found his own moon colony?
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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