Re: Simplify! A modest proposal...

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 21:09:12 MDT


John M Grigg wrote:
>
> Eliezer wrote:
> This issue has been previously raised on the Singularitarian list, and recently John Smart has requested a formal vote on the issue of whether to call it "Singularitarians" or "Singularians".
> (end)
>
> The new name for believers in the singularity should simply be...
>
> Eliezerarians! ;)

Wash out your mouth with soap, Grigg! This is not a cult. For those of us
with a smattering of evolutionary psychology, this isn't even a
hunter-gatherer tribe! I have no authority over any other Singularitarian -
nor, for that matter, over any other living thing - and if other people care
what I think, it's only because we're walking in the same direction.

I suggest that you read the Singularitarian Principles. Pay particular
attention to the Principle of Independence.

http://sysopmind.com/sing/principles.html

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



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