From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 18:37:47 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> I disagree with Greg. I don't see the publicity as all that
> damaging. It clearly shows a couple of fly-by-night operators
> with agendas operating in a less-than-forthright manner.
>
> It was an ESPN publication and we all know how that is
> clearly the best source of high quality data.
>
> Worst case -- we get a few less sports oriented people
> preserving themselves cryonically. Since by the time
> they are likely to be revivied "sports" as we know them
> seem unlikely to be of much interest I don't exactly
> view this as a significant loss.
Speaking on behalf of all sentient beings everywhere in Reality that have
evolved, preserved, or inherited a sense of compassion which encompasses
entities of human cognitive architecture, and which currently integrate
that compassion into their volitional process, I disagree.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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