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

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 22:27:55 MST

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    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky 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.
    >

    So, it is your position that the only meaningful thing that can
    be done to deal with the real suffering around us today is to
    support Singularity? Do you believe that all other attempts to
    ameliorate suffering are irrational?

    - samantha



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