Re: The economics of Star Trek

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 19:44:48 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 01:46 PM 2/28/02 -0800, Brian D Williams wrote:
> >
> >They had to have a woman captain, a black vulcan, a Native American
> >first officer, I mean come on!
>
> What? Do you mean that demographically the crew really should all have been
> Chinese or Indian or Pakistani or some such blend? Or (as I somehow
> suspect) that they all should have been white American males, because
> that's the way the real future must be?

Logically? They should all have been a uniform shade of light brown.

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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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