From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
If aliens landed tomorrow, Bill Joy would scream and run around in
> circles, while the Men in Black would ask the aliens for their
passports.
> I try to cultivate an MIB attitude.
Hey, if aliens landed tomorrow, I'd scream and run around in circles too,
and if MIBs asked the aliens for their passports, I'd hope the aliens had
sense enough to shoot them dead.
τΏτ
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind,
free will
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