From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 20:41:07 MDT
Gina Miller wrote:
>
> This subject thread is disappointing, as I had thought I was a part of
> a group that supported similar goals. There is a fraction here that I am now
> surprised to see, does not. This may well give extropians a bad name and
> leave closed doors that may have been open to inviting people into our
> knowledge and expansion. In fact, I may have to remove myself, if I feel I
> am
> not a valued member of this list as a woman or if I have to read this sort
> of nausea. I'm really fighting with myself right now, do I want to post
> this? In all honesty some things don't deserve a response but I have been so
> frustrated, that I've taken my reaction beyond the time that I am reading
> the list. I had to talk with my husband, and read him some of the things off
> this list and vented. He thinks that because I am so upset, I should post
> this email that I have been holding back in my drafts folder to express how
> reprehensible this thread has been.
Given the *incredible* topic drift this mailing list experiences within a
given subject line, would everyone who is offended *please be more specific*
about what the problem was, for the benefit of those of us who don't read
every post on the list?
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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