[extropy-chat] Copycat Copycat

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Olga Bourlin wrote:
> 
> I am an unapologetic speciesist.   $50,000 donated to science or something
> progressive would have been OK with me.  $50,000 to replace Snookums ("dead
> is dead") with another cat that looks-just-like Snookums is obscene IMO.
> 
> I agree people can do whatever they want with their money - and they do!
> (you know, peeing-vodka-ice-sculptures - what's not to love?).
> 
> I am not an animal rights activist - didn't mean to give you that
> impression.

"Well, let's get one thing straight: I think people should have a right to 
be stupid and, if they have that right, the market's going to respond by 
supplying as much stupidity as can be sold."
	-- Greg Burch

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence