From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 01 1996 - 08:37:14 MST
> Oh, I guess this answers my question. How will Bangladeshi and African
> peasants respond to this meme package?
True, they aren't in a very receptive state. Let's say that we want
this meme to infect a majority of all receptive individuals. If
necessary, we can retarget another version for a majority of all
influential individuals, technologically sophisticated or otherwise.
> } > 1. Computers double in power every two subjective years.
> } The easiest argument to understand. Attention-catcher.
> And the easiest to doubt has predictive power. And I think Eugene,
> perhaps among others, has challenged the metric of "power" used.
THIS IS NOT PHILOSOPHY!
THIS IS MEMETIC ENGINEERING!
*WHAT* DOES IT *TAKE* TO GET THAT *THROUGH* TO YOU PEOPLE!
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Maybe I'd have better luck asking the "Church of Virus" for help.
--
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