From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 11:41:50 MDT
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote:
> Now let's look at transhumanism. SIAI has already received on the order
> of 20 donations. I wasn't planning to reveal this number until
> afterward, but these strange circumstances compel me to do so. Some of
> the donors included congratulatory notes saying how effective the essay
> was, or how it finally inspired them to get moving. [...] But
> none of those donors posted their congratulations and agreement to a
> mailing list, not one. [...] We're as uncomfortable together as the
> Raelians are apart.
After I wrote this, but before I sent the message, Natasha Vita-More wrote
to the Extropy chat list:
> I'll be donating today!
>
> Natasha
Of course it was Natasha. I should have *expected* it to be Natasha.
*She* knows better!
Maybe she could give classes or something.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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