From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 01:11:46 MST
Joshua Fox wrote:
> 2007/11/21, Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com <mailto:tim@fungible.com> >:
>
> ... http://www.fungible.com/respect/index.html. Unfortunately the paper
> needs revision and hasn't yet made sense to someone who I didn't
> explain it to personally. Maybe I'll be able to make it readable
> over Thanksgiving.
>
> Tim,
>
> The paper is, in fact, very clearly written. Its style achieves a nice
> balance between the heavy formalism of academic papers and the informal
> exposition in many transhumanist items, even the better ones. Each style
> has its place, but your article's is just right for what it is aiming at.
Tim, I'd verify that praise if I were you:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/illusion-of-tra.html
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/double-illusion.html
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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