Good or bad? was: Eugene's nuclear threat

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 01 2000 - 14:11:54 MDT


On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> GOOD:
>
> Robin Hanson
> Samantha Atkins
> Eliezer Yudkowsky
> Dan Fabulich
> Darin Sunley
> Hal Finney
>
> EVIL:
>
> J. R. Molloy
> D. den Otter
> Eugene Leitl

As pleased as I am to be on the list of "good people," lists like this
make one look unnecessarily dogmatic. Frankly, this reminds me of the
Brunching Shuttlecocks feature that shows up every once in a while,
"Good or Bad." "It's realatively straightforward. It's basically a
poll, except first off it dispenses with all this irksome relativity
and second off it's infallibly correct."

To make yourself look a little better, you might try listing a quick
reason next to each name, you know: "Evil -- den Otter: Says he'll
take any means necessary to be the first and only immortal." (Did he
say he'd kill for it? I can't remember.) "Eugene Leitel: Says he'd
try to kill AI researchers because he thinks that their work is
dangerous." Stuff like that.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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