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

[John Grigg]

John K Clark wrote:
I did enjoy Eliezer's Harry Potter fan-fiction, years ago when I was
young and foolish and giant reptiles ruled the earth I wrote one
myself:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/695802/1/A_TRANSCRIPT_FROM_WIZARD_RADIO
>>>>

John K Clark wrote fan fiction?!!!!!!!!  Will wonders ever cease????

John  ; )



On 11/17/10, John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>> I have disagreed and argued with Eliezer for many years without ever
>> getting kicked out of anything including SL4.
>
> I have great fondness and respect for Eliezer, but I regret to say that has
> not been my experience with SL4. I was never formally kicked off but on two
> separate occasions more than a year apart I was told to stop posting on a
> very active thread. On both occasions I was pointing out (and doing a rather
> good job of it too at least in my opinion) that the idea of a "friendly AI",
> a Jupiter Brain whose only motivation was to help the human race was utterly
> ridiculous and a intelligence that operated on a rigid set of goals like
> Asimov's 3 laws of robotics was mathematically impossible. Apparently some
> things were too shocking for Shock Level 4, I'm sorry the group seems dead
> though.
>
> I did enjoy Eliezer's Harry Potter fan-fiction, years ago when I was young
> and foolish and giant reptiles ruled the earth I wrote one myself:
>
>>  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/695802/1/A_TRANSCRIPT_FROM_WIZARD_RADIO
>
>   John K Clark