[extropy-chat] Glad to be back

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

david stiger wrote:
> 
> <Avantguardian>
> For example, why would you need to think that Bush was a member of some
> secret society in order to cause all the misery he has?
> <Gary Miller>
> It is more comforting for me to believe in an evil club creating a 
> puppet than a country that would select him of their free will!

Let the record show that the reply attributed to Miller is stupid, wilfully 
irrational, and that deliberately embracing it is intellectual cowardice.

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