[extropy-chat] The regrettable state of journalism

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 04:49 PM 9/18/2006 -0400, John K Clark wrote:
> 
>>great poets will write
>>epic poems about the invention of the transistor, poems that will rival
>>Homer.
> 
> Well, they did about the invention of printing, antibiotics and the 
> safety pin, why not about the transistor?

Surely you don't think the greatest poets of humankind have already lived?

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