Re: Reason +/-Faith

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 18:48:39 MST


Jason Joel Thompson wrote:
>
> The last movie you saw was Dungeons and Dragons, but you didn't really like
> it, and not just because of the computer generated dragons.

Okay, that was an easy one. Dangerous, though - I don't always watch
movies at all, never mind right when they come out.

> Your mother's maiden name is "Soller".

Good call.

> I'd tell you the name of your dog, but you'd don't
> have one-- in fact, you've never had a pet of any kind.

I don't remember saying this online, but I could easily have expressed my
negative opinions about pets at one point or another.

> Marvin Minsky once snapped at you during a Foresight Gathering.

What, is it making the gossip rounds?

> You went to "Hillel Torah
> North Suburban Day School" at 7120 N. Laramie Skokie, Il. (Talk to Ruth
> Goldberg at (847) 674-6533. She's on extension *816 and very helpful.)
> Your best friend there was named David Levitt.

I didn't notice that was on the 'Net... though I'm almost sure you're
bluffing about Ruth Goldberg.

> Further:
>
> You've been discussing Friendly AI with Ben Goertzel and Samantha Atikins on
> the SL4 mailing list, whose archives are down (and to which I do not
> subscribe.) The inscription in your graduation year Hillel Torah yearbook
> lists your life's goal as "to build and crew the first faster-than-light
> starship."

Okay, maybe you weren't bluffing about Ruth Goldberg.

> Also, you've been considering ordering drapes, but have not yet done so.

THIS one is just plain creepy, unless I posted and then forgot about it.

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



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