From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 22:05:51 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 07:54 PM 7/10/2007 -0700, Eli wrote:
>
>> http://www.intelligence.org/blog/2007/07/10/the-power-of-intelligence/
>
>
> "If you saw a movie of a nuclear explosion going off, and you were told
> an Earthly life form had done it, you would never in your wildest dreams
> imagine that the Soft Pink Things could be responsible. After all, Soft
> Pink Things aren't radioactive."
>
> Not until after the nuclear explosion, anyway. But those were the Soft
> Yellowish Things, I guess. And in Australia and the Pacific, the Soft
> Black or Brownish Things.
>
> Not your point, I know. But a point.
That's what I get for thinking in cliches. Fixed.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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