[extropy-chat] Re: Raelians

[KPJ]

It appears as if Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com>:
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|Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
|> Then I think that:
|> The Raelians have 60.000 paying members worldwide and a lot of money.
|> All transhumanist associations together have perhaps 300 paying members.
|> I wonder what conclusions we should make.
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|You should conclude that... the other 100 cults that tried to get started 
|using flying-saucer nonsense didn't make it big, so you never heard about 
|them in the media?

Logically, you should create an alter ego (Yuël?) having 60,000 paying
members. Good for economy, I understand.

The propaganda dynamics of Yuël giving happy-happy A.I. news, and Eliezer
Yudkowsky being the moderate group would make nice media input.

OTOH, that just *may* make your Baby A.I. confused.