Re: We're stuck with each other

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 16:40:24 MST


Arona Ndiaye wrote:
>
> >>Perhaps some of these folks will be persuaded to be a 'personality donator'
> >>in much the same way we are encouraged today to be organ donators on our
> >>demise.
>
> Somehow I could not help but to read your sentence as: "Perhaps some of these
> folks will be 'persuaded' to be a personality donator".

Wouldn't it be nice to live on a planet where "persuasion" was a code word
for "chocolate"? It worked fine on Mom.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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