[extropy-chat] All hail Will Wilkinson

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> Will is a guy worth reading:
> 
> http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/01/02/the-strange-myth-of-finite-status/
> 
> Just think about it. It is not wrong at all to engage in positional
> games. Pissing contests are not the reviled zero-sum games that e.g.
> Nick Bostrom would like to ban.

For every winner in Go, there must be a loser.  Let us abolish the game 
at once.

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