From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 17:33:57 MDT
Hubert Mania wrote:
> Eliezer calmed down Giulio:
>
>>Giulio, I think that's far too grudging an approval. Maybe they're just
>>ordinary humans who want to do the nice thing and, by golly, got it right
>>regardless of our own stereotyped preconceptions? Can't we just
>>congratulate them on that?
>
> The Vatican knows very well that their founder has already performed
> the food manipulation trick 2000 years ago. Until now it was known as
> "the feeding of the 5000" and it was nothing more than a devout tale of
> Jesus' miracles. Maybe the trustees of his deeds are eager now to get into
> the details of repeating it in real time and real life. Wouldn't be the
> worst of news.
"Good move, John Paul! Keep up the good work!" That's all. Is it really
so hard to say? There's no need for recriminations, random potshots, et
cetera. When someone makes a move in your direction, the correct response
is a friendly wave, not spitting in their eye.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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