From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 09:29:15 MST
Please, people, a bit of respect for the Bard. Blaming death by iatrogenic
AIDS on "science" is quite unfair to science. This wasn't a flaw in the
science, it was a coincidental and unrelated flaw in the medical
implementation. Asimov died because we didn't know how to cure AIDS, and
that's the only sense in which science failed him.
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"'Man has Nature whacked,' said someone to a friend of mine not long ago.
In their context the words had a certain tragic beauty, for the speaker was
dying of tuberculosis. 'No matter,' he said, 'I know I'm one of the
casualties. Of course there are casualties on the winning as well as on the
losing side. But that doesn't alter the fact that it is winning.'"
-- C.S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man"
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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