Re: Mike Lorrey Eliminated From Extropians List (was RE: META: List Changes)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 01:18:05 MDT

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    John K Clark wrote:
    > "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com> Wrote:
    >
    >> The word is out that long time poster Mike Lorrey has run afoul the
    >> list authorities for some unspecified reason. This is pretty hard to
    >> believe. I don't know exactly what list rules he is alleged to have
    >> broken, but in my opinion this really bodes ill for the future.
    >
    > I agree it's crazy! I'm a little behind in reading the list but I can't
    > imagine what Mike did to deserve that.

    If there's one thing the Extropians list has desperately needed for the
    last seven years, it's a policy of shooting first and asking questions
    later. I vote that the new regime keeps a heavy finger on the trigger,
    shoots anyone who twitches, and keeps firing until the magazine is empty.
      If they have to shoot through the innocent to reach the guilty then
    that's fine too. If my own dead body ends up smoking on the heap of
    innocent corpses it would not be too high a price to pay. You can't make
    an omelet without cracking a few skulls.

    Government on mailing lists does not and should not run on the same rules
    of justice as government in physical reality.

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


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