[extropy-chat] PR: Lanier trashing >Hism again...

[Jeff Medina]

> Once I'm better informed, I try to give the tech/idea the same status
> in my mind as the stuff I really like, and artificially keep it there
> for a while (maybe a few weeks).
> 
> This (the artificial pretense) does not seem like a rational course to me. 

If you take into account how often people dismiss ideas before truly
understanding them, it seems quite rational.

-- 
Jeff Medina
http://www.painfullyclear.com/

Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/

Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies
http://www.ieet.org/

School of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/phil/