From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 15:35:46 MST
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:11:12PM +0100, Max M wrote:
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> >My advice is to ignore nontechnical articles, as of the popular news
> >media, as they are rich on accusations (on both sides) but short on facts.
>
> It is really amazing to follow this story. And not just a little sad.
> The critics have worked themself up into a frenzy, and it is impossible
> to have a rational debate. And this is from so called scientists.
>
> Especially here in Denmark the debate is very heated, with populist
> politicians on both sides jumping into the fray.
Have you read the report? The denouncements of the report in Reason, The
Economist and TCS have been strong, but I wonder if they have read it. I
have this awful feeling that a lot of the international sources are just
repeating from each other (on both sides), especially since
Danish-reading people are somewhat rare. It might be nice to check what
the report actually says, and if it is as bad as it seems (like using
*Scientific American* as an authoritative scientific source - it is
after all a popular science journal, if a good one).
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