Re: Having a life

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 04:54:00 -0500

Doug Jones wrote:
>
> Eliezer wrote:
>
> > I don't demand that others live as I do. The wise choice for a
> > Specialist isn't necessarily the wise choice for anyone else, even a
> > different kind of Specialist. But if people start going all
> > "oh-I'm-wiser" on me and spouting back the wisdom of the sages as seen
> > on TV, then yes, I'm going to be annoyed.
>
> Eliezer, I apologize for my condescending tone. It was rude and
> inconsiderate, and I was generalizing too much. I wish I'd stuck
> with jesting, or better yet, not made my first wiseass post.

Methinks the man doth apologize too much - I'm sorry for snapping at you. I shouldn't take out my annoyance with the last three hundred people on one person.

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