[ExI] earth hour

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky sentience at pobox.com
Sun Mar 30 02:26:26 UTC 2008


spike wrote:
> 
> Earth Hour?  I remember when that planet used to get a whole day.  As time
> goes on, we have less of it, and there are ever more cool things to learn.
> A few years from now, perhaps it will need to be shortened again to Earth
> Minute, then eventually to Earth Nanosecond.

I was sorely tempted to post on Overcoming Bias that I intended to 
turn on all my lights for Earth Hour, by way of helping to prevent any 
drop in demand that might make my power company afraid to invest in 
building another 200 nuclear plants.

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



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