[extropy-chat] Blue people and behavior

[dgc at cox.net]

Quick! check under your bed!

> 
> From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com>
> Date: 2003/11/17 Mon AM 04:19:09 EST
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Blue people and behavior
> 
> Robert Bradbury wrote:
> > 
> > At any rate --  assume we are in a sim.  Assume reality is constructed
> > "on demand".  Does this alter ones (a) morality; or (b) behavior
> > on a day-to-day basis?  Why or why not?
> 
> Wouldn't it depend mostly on what the blue people were doing and why?  For 
> example, if speaking the words "Klaatu berada niktu" caused the blue 
> people to leave suitcases of money under my bed, I would speak the words 
> "Klaatu berada niktu."
> 
> -- 
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
> 
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