From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 22:29:41 MDT
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
> Marc Geddes wrote:
>>
>> To approximate the collective volition of humanity we
>> don't need to look at the brains of 6 billion people
>> at all. In fact I think that the brains of only a few
>> hundred should suffice as a very good approximation!
>
> Possibly.
I see on further reading that Geddes had a specific few hundred people in
mind. Talk about your transparent moral failures. I'd like to repudiate
any association with that concept. I simply meant that a random sample of
a few hundred might turn out to suffice for a good approximation.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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