Re: Lomborg vs. critics

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 11:38:48 MST


Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> But then counter-errors like this one aren't really the issue; we're
> interested in whether Lomborg has made severe errors, not whether his
> critics have made worse. In general, it looks to me like, with the three
> exceptions noted above, Lomborg replies successfully to most points made,
> even after the counterreply is taken into consideration. Note that
> Scientific American receives the last word in this exchange; and as
> Scientific American sued Lomborg to prevent him from posting his original
> point-by-point reply on his own site, they have control over who gets the
> last word.

Sorry: SciAm threatened to sue, but did not actually sue.

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


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