Re: Suppressing technologies can *kill* people

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 19:23:34 MDT


"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Actually suppression isn't the status quo if you look at the
> history of humanity.

That is irrelevant if people *think* of "the way things are now" as the
status quo. There is a cognitive difference between how people mentally
process default conditions and exceptional conditions.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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