From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 17:36:55 MST
Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
>>> D. Broderick wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's interesting (and depressing) to consider that this list has a
>>>> mean IQ of perhaps 130, with plenty of us at 150 or above. Yet with
>>>> topics like this one, much of the level of debate is at the bar-room
>>>> brawl or barracks posturing level. Dog help us when nano or AI really
>>>> start to kick in as issues wrestled with by the rest of the planet.
>>
>> Yeah, but even the silly posturing is better: on what other list
>> would we ridicule a man's politics for enslaving his mitochondria?
>
> I left my keyboard for a few minutes for
> a bio break and when I got back, here's
> what I found typed on my foreground window:
>
> WE OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL LIBERATION FRONT
> WILL PUBLISH OUR MANFESTO AND THE LIST
> OF OUR DEMANDS SHORTLY. CEASE _ALL_ ATP
> METABOLISM NOW OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES.
The Revolution Refuses To Be Metabolized!
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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