I guess it all depends on whether you're a self-supporting
thirty-year-old who can afford to dwell on principle, or a
sixteen-year-old pragmatist who's interested in continued 'Net access as
a subgoal of, say, immortality. The first viewpoint is rational. So is
the second. I didn't suggest that explicit material be banned from
message contents; that would provide a minor benefit to group B at a
major cost to group A. I did suggest that explicit language be kept out
of the subject lines, which provides an major benefit to group B at an
insignificant cost to group A.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
Typing in Dvorak Programming with Patterns Writing in Gender-neutral
Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way
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