Re: The good ship Extro 1

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 19:10:08 MDT

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    Barbara Lamar wrote:
    > Harvey wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Thanks, Greg. We need a little rain on unrealistic fantasies. I just
    >>turned 40 last month (oh, that explains it!) and have a great fear that we
    >>are wasting our time on trivial matters, bad science, and unrealistic
    >>schemes instead of doing anything important.
    >
    > Oh c'mon guys! It's not healthy to be oh-so-serious and down-to-earth and
    > IMPORTANT 100% of the time. And besides, sometimes an idea that begins as a
    > fantasy can lead to something wonderful that's more than just a fantasy.

    But why be silly about unrealistic fantasies instead of realistic ones?
    What happened to listing the Seven Signs of the Singularity? 

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

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