Re: Uploading news item

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 14:02:12 MDT


> Reidenberg is not impressed: "The notion that it's "permission marketing
> only' is a hoax. There's no way a citizen in our society can make an
> intelligent, informed decision about the risks of these implants, which
> would be sold through very sophisticated marketing by organizations with
> large economic interests whose goals are not to promote the public interest.
> That's a very scary vision for a democratic society.

Oh, I just love this. "There's no way a citizen in our society can make
an intelligent, informed decision..." Who asked you, Neanderthal technophobe?

-- 
       sentience@pobox.com      Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
          http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
                 Member, Extropy Institute
           Senior Associate, Foresight Institute



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:11:19 MDT