From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 08:18:57 MDT
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (commenting on my comments)
wrote:
> Is this a typo, or do you really mean Robin Hanson?
[snip]
> In short, Robin
> is playing exactly by the social modesty rules. Is the "hubris" part that
> he is visibly doing just that, playing, or does he actually somehow manage
> to sound hubristic?
In thinking about it just now (given the comments) one does have
to wonder (just a little bit) about how much Robin is "playing"
a role which he has scripted. I'd wonder about a short list
for "advanced aliens sent here to monitor Earthlings" ... Robin seems
a mixture of "just a little too smart" and fits in "a little too well".
In part because as Eliezer points out one has to wonder if it is only a
subset of his ideas that he chosen to explain to us thus far.
But just to qualify -- I was mostly using Eliezer and Robin as
"straight men" to see what kind of response it would produce
from Anders... (Sorry if I stepped on any toes in the process).
Now, we might want to add a field to the GKES database,
e.g. "known alien", "suspected alien", "alien wannabe", etc.
Would make it more entertaining for people reading the DB...
Robert
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