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

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 03:36:41 MST

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    Michael M. Butler wrote:
    > 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.

    Makes no difference. N-1 orders of magnitude instead of N.

    > And "the" singularity might not be
    > altruistic.

    I didn't say there was only one possible outcome. I identified the
    leverage point. 

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

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