Re: Rulers and Famine in Poor Countries (was Obesity)

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 01:24:23 MST

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    On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 02:11:32 -0500, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
    <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:

    > As far as leveraged altruism goes, nothing is within the same league of
    > the Singularity, for either efficiency or efficacy, by N orders of
    > magnitude. I really don't see why rational discussion would tend to
    > linger anywhere else.

    The singularity might be late. And "the" singularity might not be
    altruistic.
    To name the two most obvious arguable points. Fee free not to see them. :)

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