Re: Hidden Agendas? (was: Invisible Friends)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 23:15:47 MDT


Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> You are not alone. Call me paranoid, but I have been having the same
> feeling.
>
> I don't understand why the topics of infanticide, racism and violence
> keep popping up. There is nothing new in these discussions, but
> something is driving their constant reintroduction into this forum
> lately.
>
> Stranger still, these threads always seem to include discussions on how
> to manage the list, how to rewrite Max's principles, how to change the
> Extropian philosophy, how to establish extropian forums somewhere other
> than the ExI servers, etc.
>
> What is this all about? There sems to be some sort of meme-war going on
> just underneath the surface. Someone seems to be trying to grab
> mind-space within the Extropian domain for other ideas.

It's a vast, anti-infant conspiracy. This can only mean one thing: VHEMT
infiltrators.

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



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