Re: Yeah, guns and guns and guns and guns

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Fri, 28 May 1999 16:02:38 -0500

Eugene Leitl wrote:
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> Do you think anybody is still listening?

No. I've been deleting everything. I think that at this point we should Ban the following topics, except for brief announcements of bad laws.

  1. Guns.
  2. Politics.

Extropianism is about ultratechnology, whether the Principles say so or not - just as science fiction is about advanced technology. We need to crack down decisively on those topics that aren't about technology at all.

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