From: CyTG (cytg.net@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 06:22:10 MST
arh, subtle difference between ignorant bliss and arrogant .........
You should be able to come up with a satisfactory explanation, in logical
terms, that favors Clarks pov.
On Dec 9, 2007 11:01 PM, Rick Smith <rick.smith@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> So in your magical world of elitism, Nobel Prize winners never have bad
> ideas, nobody John K Clark hasn't heard of has good ideas and charismatic
> tyrants never win support for genocidal policies.
>
> Sadly the real world is a little less clear cut.
>
> -Rick-
>
>
> From: "John K Clark" <johnkclark@fastmail.fm>
> Date: 2007/12/09 Sun PM 06:35:50 GMT
> To: "sl4 sl4" <sl4@sl4.org>
> Subject: Re: Re: How to make a slave (was: Building a friendly AI)
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 "Rick Smith"
> <rick.smith@ntlworld.com> said:
>
>
> > So the validity of an idea is determined
> > by the celebrity of the proponent?
>
> Yes, exactly. When a Nobel Prize winning scientist announces a
> revolutionary discovery in Nature or Science I am interested, very
> interested indeed; when a similar announcement is made by Henry J
> Bumblefuck in the National Inquirer I am somewhat less interested, if
> truth be told I don't consider it worth 10 seconds of my time.
>
> John K Clark
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