[extropy-chat] FWD (UFO UpDate) Re: 1940s UFO [and class warfare in the U.S.] Mindset

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Robert Bradbury wrote:
> 
> On 4/26/06, *Eliezer S. Yudkowsky* wrote:
> 
>      > You youngsters are very close to losing your country.
>      >
>      > Wendy Connors
> 
>     We know.
> 
>     You're very close to losing your planet.
> 
> So?  *Who* wants to live at the bottom of a gravity well *anyway*?

I wasn't talking about global warming.  Or bird flu.  Or an asteroid 
strike.  Or grey goo.  Or any other minor disaster limited to one 
planet.  But this planet is presently all we have, so, for the sake of 
brief replies, I cut it short.

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