Re: [isml] Making HAL Your Pal (fwd)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 15:13:03 MDT


Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
> >
> > "J. R. Molloy" wrote:
> >
> > > "anonymous"? I immediately thought of you when I read that line.
> > > You mean Declan McCullagh wasn't quoting you?
> >
> > You must be joking. I strongly suspect it was Minsky, or some other
> > luminary of the same stellar magnitude.
>
> Ooo Ooo, I can see it now: Extro5 Celebrity Death Match

Would you people stop that? I have a feeling that not even Minsky would
have snapped at me if he'd known that it would lead to this kind of weirdo
persistent legend.

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



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