From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 00:42:35 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> Trying to influence present-day culture in the hopes of influencing
> post-Singularity culture(*) is not the only possible way of entangling
> yourself in the Singularity. If you overestimate the relative importance of
> "cultural development" then you run the risk of investing your limited
> resources incorrectly.
>
And if you underestimate "cultural development" they may come
after you with pitchforks and torches (or the modern State
equivalents) before you get the SI seed to sprout.
- samantha
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