[extropy-chat] give a small window into the military mind

[Brett Paatsch]

> On 7/4/05, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>> I would, on the strict grounds that convincing people of ideologies 
>> counts for
>> nothing - is no triumph for the ideology.  Only what people do matters. 
>> It
>> benefits humanity nothing when one more human becomes convinced of, say, 
>> the
>> Singularity Institute's reading material, unless that human should be
>> motivated to do something differently thereby, and even then the belief 
>> still
>> matters nothing of itself.  This is something that I emphasize in all 
>> causes I
>> join, doing my helpful part to prevent those causes from becoming 
>> religions;
>> belief counts for nothing.
>>
>
> Not quite nothing. You mean the intellectual belief that does not
> result in any action counts for nothing.
> You have to have the belief first as a driving force for your actions.
> "machshavosav ni'karos mi'toch ma'asav..."

I guess that tee shirt "Don't believe. Think !" won't be arriving anytime
soon then :-)

Brett Paatsch