From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> ...People who work with math call
> themselves mathematicians; people who work with geology call themselves
> geologists; people who work with machines call themselves mechanics; people
> who work in libraries call themselves librarians; people who work with wood
> call themselves carpenters; ...
Einstein worked with math, but he called himself a theoretical physicist.
Darwin worked with geology, but he was called an evolutionist.
The Wright brothers worked with machines, but they were called inventors of the
airplane.
Karl Marx worked in a library, but he didn't call himself a librarian (he
started a cult).
People who work toward the singularity are spike boffins until it happens.
Then they become something else... something incomprehensible... something
wonderful. (?)
--J. R.
"We participate, therefore we are."
--John Seely Brown, _The Social Life of Information_
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