Re: taxifornia power sitch

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2001 - 14:42:59 MDT


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> As you may have already heard, Pacific Gas and Electric
> declared chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. Our so-called
> governor Gray "Red" Davis declared the move on the part
> of PG+E as "selfish" for it "does not have the interest of the
> people of this state at heart."

That is almost surreally similar to _Atlas Shrugged_. It reads like
something that Ayn Rand would make up for the sake of driving the point
through your head like a railroad spike, not something that would actually
take place in the real world. Be afraid.

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



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