From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 19:56:58 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> Hey Eli, do you think they could genetically engineer a kosher pig? ;)
> (and not just by changing its call from "oink oink" to "oy oy")
If I recall correctly, Jewish law - *old* law, dating back to medieval
times, not a modern ruling - states that if a cow gives birth to a pig, the
pig is kosher. If you want a real answer, my advice is not to consult
someone who's committed somewhere around ten thousand infractions punishable
by death under Jewish law (seriously; more than a thousand, less than a
hundred thousand, would be my estimate).
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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