From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 19:45:35 MDT
ABlainey@aol.com wrote:
>
> I think we are reading far to much into the God quote. I have lost count
> of the times I have said 'Thank God' This is no indication of my
> religious belief, just of my vocabulary and the common sayings I use.
> It is much preferable in many instances to say 'Thank God' than it is to
> say 'Thank Fuck for that' The point is that I no more believe that God
> is responsible for the preferable outcome of anything, than I do that
> Fucking is somehow responsible. Although doing the latter usually never
> does any harm.
I think I'm getting over that habit, thank Belldandy.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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