From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 11:23:48 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Limiting the range of intelligence would absolutely be a bad thing, and
> creative lying is definitely a form of intelligence. I, author of "The
> Ethics of Cognitive Engineering", formally state that this modification
> should be forbidden except in the most extreme cases of informed
> consent. (This comes from the person who doesn't think there's anything
> particularly wrong with performing _enhancive_ neurosurgery
> on small children.)
I agree. It disturbs me that so many otherwise freedom-loving people seem
to be endorsing the idea of mandatory truth testing. If I can be required
to submit to truth testing every time someone want to know what I really
think about something, then I have lost a fundamental freedom. It is only a
short step from there to universal thought monitoring - and the step is
technological, not ideological.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com
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