Re: Rotting in Hell

From: Robert Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 15:09:36 MDT


U.S. Muslim Organizations Condemn Bombings in New York and Washington

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2001-09/12/article14.shtml

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Rotting in Hell

> Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> > The image of them cheering is hard to get rid of.
>
> Don't trust the American media. The video could quite easily have been
> the result of American reporters scouring every city and village in the
> Palestinian territories until they finally found one corner of one
> isolated hamlet where a tiny set of fools were cheering, followed by
> editing to remove the video of the other Palestinians telling them to shut
> up. Our objective, unbiased media does that sort of thing.
>
> I don't expect the American reporters in fact had to search very far, and
> I don't expect that there was in fact anyone telling the cheering
> Palestinians to shut up; but I also find it very easy to believe that
> Palestinian children took a moment of silence and that this was not
> televised alongside the video of Palestinians cheering.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>



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