From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 10:14:21 MST
John K Clark wrote:
> There has been a request to label posts that deal with certain events in a
> country whose name must not be spoken. I'm happy to comply but I am curious,
> what's the big deal? The time it takes to set up elaborate filters and write
> posts complaining that other posts are not properly labeled is much longer
> than just hitting the old delete button. Is it really the end of the world
> if you happen to see a few words of it in the fraction of a second before it
> enters electronic heaven?
I think it'll take less work to do this than to spend the next several
months wading through all the SUBJECT LINES IN CAPITAL LETTERS - it's
getting hard to even see the real posts between all the others.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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