Re: SOC/BIO/POL: International Forum on Globalization conference

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 13:09:30 MST


Terry Donaghe wrote:
>
> What is the alternative(s) that these luddites teach? Do they want a green
> dictatorship where 3 or 4 billion of us die while the rest live in an
> agrarian utopia? What is their end goal?

End goal? What end goal? Only someone who was actively engaged in
constructing a specific future would demand criticisms that take the form
of more desirable alternate actions.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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