From: "Geraint Rees" <g.rees@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>
> I don't see any similarity between the activities of an organisation that
> seeks to defend civil liberties in the US and a terrorist organisation
> responsible for thousands of murders.
The ACLU seeks to advance its socialist agenda while pretending to defend
civil liberties, and Al Quaida seeks to advance its tyrannical agenda while
pretending to defend Islam. The similarities are in their hypocrisy,
dishonesty, and malignancy.
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Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values, scientific relinquishment, malevolent AI,
non-sensory experience, SETI
We move into a better future in proportion as science displaces superstition.
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