Oops: Attribution (WAS: Re: Singularity of another kind)

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 11:53:01 -0600

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> We all ground in arbitrary evolutionary influences, but some systems of
> thought minimize that arbitrariness and some systems maximize it.
> Historically speaking, the best results, by almost any standard, derived from
> reference to non-arbitrary tests.

Iain M. Banks, _Player of Games_, pp. 160-1:

"Every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it."

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