Re: Senators Denounce Policy Analysis Markets

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 21:38:42 MDT

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    Spike wrote:
    >
    > I showed the story around the office and saw something
    > that I am at a loss to explain. There was about an
    > evenly divided opinion, but the for/against axis
    > went roughly along the conservative/liberal faultline.
    > Can anyone offer an explanation to why the rightwing
    > and upwing types tended toward favoring the idea and
    > the others opposed?

    I think that at this point a bitter remark about limbic versus prefrontal
    reactions is in order. 

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

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