Re: [isml] Making HAL Your Pal (fwd)

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 17:21:25 MDT


From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> Would you people stop that? I have a feeling that not even Minsky would
> have snapped at me if he'd known that it would lead to this kind of weirdo
> persistent legend.

Don't worry, Eliezer, they'll snap (in another way) when they learn you are
the mensch who built the friendly golem. I'd congratulate you on the Wired
news item, but it looks a bit like a hatchet job. How do you feel about it?
(Nice picture of you, btw.)

Cheers,

--J. R.

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives...I think we're
being run by maniacs for maniacal ends...and I think I'm liable to be put away
as insane for expressing that."
--John Lennon, 1968.



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