Re: (fwd) Signs of the Times

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 14:19:02 MST


"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> >
> > "S.J. Van Sickle" wrote:
> > >
> > > In the US, most golf courses are private clubs, and, as such, were just
> > > about the last institutions to racially integrate. If I'm not mistaken,
> > > some still essentially are, though they would deny it.
>
> Oh, now Eli, they each have their own pet token Jew. ;-P

Misattribution - that was in reply to S.J. Van Sickle, not myself.

This is a foolish debate. It is dangerous enough to comment about the
stereotypes themselves, as memetic entities. Never comment about real
people.

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



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