RE: September 11: International Enough Day

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 23:13:58 MDT


At 06:44 PM 9/11/02 -0600, Ben wrote:

>> It is a proud and terrible thing to be one of the
>> very, very few sentients born before the Singularity

>I don't think that dying before the Singularity is either proud or terrible.
>I definitely don't see the "proud" part -- why be proud about happenstance?

Eliezer wrote *born before*, not *died before*. Admittedly, for most of
those 100 billion or so, it was both.

Damien Broderick





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