From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 20:00:26 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> However, if the interview accurately represents his positions, Kass
> is most dangerous because he honestly believes that *you* (each and
> every one of us) *should* die. Due to that perspective he may trump even
> my hand among the players of "genocidal mania poker".
True. Leon Kass has advocated far more horrifying things than you,
whether that is instinctively apparent or not. That is the reason for
evaluating things rationally, rather than emotionally; emotion often far
underestimates the awfulness of a thought, proposal, deed, or reality.
The opposite error is rather less common.
"Don't judge me so harshly, Mr. Sable. If there is a God, then He has
passed a death sentence on every human being from the moment of
conception. I am but a talented amateur."
-- Conrad Bland
- Michael Resnick, _Walpurgisnacht_, p. 140.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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