From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 17:36:34 MDT
Michael writes
> Out of curiosity, what do you think of those who ascribe to other groups a
> ratio of, say, (30% devil, 20% child, 50% "our kind of 'real' person"),
> whatever that might mean? ...Does that make all of those people incredibly
> arrogant? Or imperialist? Or merely human?
This question may suffer from the ambiguity of "other groups"
the way that Wei Dai's and Hal's discussion of rational Bayesian
agents does. What about when the variable "other groups" takes
on values like "teenagers" or "dogs"? I guess that you mean
humans not in jail or mental institutions or drunk, and who are
also above some particular age.
I think that it means both arrogant and imperialist, to some degree.
Those of us in the "in group", whether it be Extropians, fighters
for racial equality, parents, corporate developers, or humans often
look down our noses at those we think of as unenlightened, or stupid,
or immature, or violent, non-sentient. Sometimes I approve of us
doing that, sometimes I don't.
Lee
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