[ExI] Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Singularitarian Principles. Update?

[Damien Broderick]

On 11/13/2010 9:34 AM, Ben Zaiboc wrote:
>>> then had to look in
>>>  Wikipedia, in the middle of our argument, to find out
>>>  about one of the
>>>  central figures in that field (Johnson-Laird)).

>>   That*is*  dismaying!

> Hm.
>
> I'm rather surprised to hear anyone on this list call the outsourcing of knowledge "dismaying".

You misunderstood. What is dismaying is someone arguing in those fields 
for whom Philip Johnson-Laird, Stuart Professor of Psychology at 
Princeton, and his work was an unknown factor. Johnson-Laird's book 
MENTAL MODELS, for example, is a classic.

Damien Broderick