On 4/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eliezer S. Yudkowsky</b> <<a href="mailto:sentience@pobox.com">sentience@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is excellently put and went straight into my quotes file.<br><br>I do have one comment, which is a general writing tip:<br><br>It is a famous rule of writing that the strongest word, phrase, or<br>thought comes at the *end* of the sentence, paragraph, or essay.
<br><br>Here, the punchline is "extraterrestrial stupidity" so it should go at<br>the end.</blockquote><div><br>
Thanks! Yes, good point. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I would like to be able to put into my quotes file:<br><br>"As for the little green men... they don't want us to know about them,
<br>so they refrain from making contact... then they do silly aerobatics<br>displays within radar range of military bases... with their exterior<br>lights on. If that's extraterrestrial intelligence, I'm not sure I want<br>
to see extraterrestrial stupidity."<br><br>It seems like a minor quibble, but this is a powerful argument<br>powerfully put, and it may be useful to quote someday.<br>
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You're right, consider it amended accordingly.<br>