Re: Reintroduction

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 22:34:29 MDT


Technotranscendence wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:54 PM Eliezer S. Yudkowsky sentience@pobox.com
> wrote:
> > Partially this is because my current name is so hard to pronounce. But
> > the other reason is a harsh necessity for all children of the digital
> > age...
> >
> > ...outrunning the posts you made when you were fourteen.
>
> Who has the time to dig through all that ancient history?

Unfortunately, I'm still in a FAQ... a FAQ that is multiply archived and
regularly reposted.

It seems likely that changing your name at age twenty or so will
eventually become a commonly observed custom of the digital age,
Singularity permitting. Of course, we haven't heard Broderick's side of
the story, yet...

-- 
        sentience@pobox.com    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
               http://singinst.org/home.html



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