Re: National Nanotechnology Initiative

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Aug 27 2000 - 23:30:07 MDT


"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> > Guess the whole theory of "Be public and open, so that you have some
> > influence in how things go" turned out to be a load of horse hockey.
>
> As Galileo could have told you, being public and open can get you in trouble.
> What matters is who first got it right.

A hundred years ago, that was true. A hundred years from now, it will
be true again. It is not true right now.

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



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