From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 10:59:20 MDT
Helge Kautz wrote:
>
> On 16.05.2002 18:40 Uhr, "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Fiction or nonfiction, expect your first work to suck.
>
> My first works are from around 1983 and they suck big time.
>
> > distinguish between "Singularity fanfic" and actual attempts at Singularity
> > fiction - i.e., stories having character, plot, development, resolution, and
> > all that literary stuff.
>
> That's exactly what I have in mind. Anything else would be Star Trek, and
> I'm not a Trekkie.
Don't worry, Helge, I wasn't talking about *you*... I was trying to prevent
the dreadful, shrieking horror of our own attempts at writing from scaring
you away.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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