[extropy-chat] Victoria News: Singularitarians in the City of Gardens

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Al Brooks wrote:
> This is one reason so many are suspicious or want to ignore it. It's 
> pretty chirpy to say singularitarians rely, "only on the evidence and 
> patterns scientists have tested and observed in the natural universe".
> Nothing else?

I also rely on evidence and patterns which mere passing observation 
detects in the natural universe, if there's no reason to expect that 
science could should and would test it.  I rely on my eyes to tell me 
whether my shoelace is untied; this fact is rationally knowable to me, 
but it is not part of the publicly acessible knowledge of humankind, as 
it would be if it were a replicable experiment published in a journal.

Aside from that, the answer to your question is "Not intentionally."

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