Eliezer has gotten impatient with the discussion of
racism. Don't you understand how much progress will
have been made if known extremists from each end
actually have calm, reasoned discussions free from
name-calling, ad hominem, and caricaturizing? And
we are very close! My only fear is that some of
the participants just won't find it to be any fun
without emotionally rending their opponents limb
from limb, and will stop talking too soon.
I do sympathize, however, and can't wait to discuss
some issues in computability and spirituality.
Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:21 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: META: Are we *still* discussing that?
>
>
> Heinlein! Nazis! Okay, the racism thread is over, everyone move on to
> discussing uploading, or the Singularity, or the definition of
> transhumanism, or for the love of Nevada SOMETHING with a bloody tinge of
> bloody future shock! Christ on a smoking birch bark canoe, is this list
> EVER going to get over it? I'm sorry, but someone has to say it:
>
> BBBB OO RRRR III N N GGGG
> B B O O R R I NN N G
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> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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