Re: Threats to the Singularity.

From: Tim Barnard (tbarnard@povn.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 11:05:47 MDT


It's a novel, originally published online and now available as a book titled
"Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse." Basically it's about a group of
Christian survivalists who live through a stock market crash, an economic
collapse, and a second civil war.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <sl4@sysopmind.com>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Threats to the Singularity.

> Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Eugen Leitl wrote:
> >>
> >>>So basically in your value system the right of humanity to exist and
the
> >>>right for you to pursue your activities, which bears considerable
> >>>probability to teotwawki this place not even balance.
> >>>
> >>>You *are* a sick puppy.
> >>
> >>Something about this line of reasoning strikes me as a non sequitur, but
I
> >>can't put my finger on it.
> >
> >
> > I don't think it's non sequitur, since that's the definition of a sick
> > puppy (=broken compassion circuitry). It seems Moravec and de Garis also
> > fit in that cathegory. Perhaps the field is self-selective.
> >
> > It's mutual self restraint (consideration of other people's world view)
> > that makes this place livable.
> >
> > Do you disagree?
>
> Eugene, my point is that the paragraph above is incomprehensible. What's
a
> teotwawki?
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
>



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