From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 22:33:30 MST
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:36:30PM -0800, Thomas Buckner wrote:
> Agreed. I was not bitching him out, but mentioning something that
> was said weeks or months ago, and it had lingered in the back of
> my head. If you read what I said, it's complimentary, and not very
> different from what you say now.
This wasn't directed at you at all.
> And when you come right down to it, Eliezer doesn't need to
> explain himself to the world, only to those he's actually working
> with (which may be construed to include competitors who need to be
> convinced not to do something world-killingly dumb).
Indeed. Furthermore, I was really happy with the whole "mad
scientist" thing. Eliezer's time should not be spent doing PR.
-Robin
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