chris.watkins@iname.com wrote:
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> Sorry that you might think that, Damien - it certainly wasn't intentional. Dem memes just keep on circulating, I guess.
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> Best wishes,
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> C.
Ouch.
-- Damien, I didn't get the impression of plagiarism, not offhand, although I know from experience how easy it is to pick up a Damienism without realizing it. (It wasn't until rereading the Spike that I realized you'd invented the "blind painter" metaphor I use to describe human programmers with no codic cortex.) But it was a nice Singularity article, and we need more of them, especially from people reading the Extropian newsgroup; and ideas do tend to express themselves in similar ways.Live and let live, Eliezer. -- sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html Typing in Dvorak Programming with Patterns Writing in Gender-neutral Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way
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