Re: My new site

Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:30:28 -0600


> "unless stated otherwise, I am not telling you everything I know."
> - Who said that?

Me. For a good reason. On many occasions, I know things that are
drastically relevant and I keep my mouth shut, because the ideas
involved are:

1) Dangerous
2) Unpublished
3) Misleading without an extra 40K of explanation
4) Not backed up by experimental evidence
5) Likely to provoke a backlash
6) Aren't worth the effort of defending
7) Are beyond the ability of normal human beings to understand
8) Would provoke religious riots if explained

Got it?

-- 
         sentience@pobox.com      Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
          http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
           http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
Disclaimer:  Unless otherwise specified, I'm not telling you
everything I know.