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>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:57:56 -0400
>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: How to reach the masses
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>The one thing you can never, ever do is condescend to your audience. Do so,
>and you lose the empathy that lets you communicate effectively; you lose the
>ability to transfer thoughts from yourself to the audience, and are left with
>nothing but a few lifeless tricks of propaganda.
>
One must also remember that the "masses" are comprised of individuals. Any appeal to them must acknowledge that fact, and both address and be tailored to (each of) them as the individuals that they are. The leaders include the individuals as a subclass; if we can get them on board, the herdish followers will do what they do best, the only thing they know how to do, and follow.
>
>-- -- -- -- --
>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
>Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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