From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 16:28:59 MDT
Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
> It all goes back to the ancient days, when the guy on the horse was
> likely the King, while everybody else just had shit all over
> themselves.
It's a good try, but as far as I know, domestication of the horse is an
innovation of the agricultural era - not part of the ancestral
environment. But perhaps people on motorcycles are perceived as taller.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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