Re: Congratulations Eliezer!

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 17:12:17 MST


At 11:03 PM 3/01/00 -0600, the fat lady did not sing

>Good term. In fact, the "Low Beyond" index (see .sig) lists it under
>"Magnum Opii" along with "Coding a Transhuman AI".

That's `opera' for a plural, I believe. And presumably `Magna'. (Not to be
confused with `manga'.) Then again, you can't really have more than one,
since it denotes the, ahem, singular pinnacle of achievement.

Damien Broderick



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