From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 15:50:13 MDT
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> Of course it's the perception of Extropianism as a cult that's
> more of a problem. Maybe we can turn this to our advantage?
> The media seems to have an unholy fascination with cults
> but I think many of the posters here would come off quite
> well in an interview.
My advice is not to try it. The present-day media is almost pure evil.
Give it another five years and see if collaborative filtering can kill off
the current crop of parasites.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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