On 6/23/07, <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;">
Russell Wallace wrote:<br>> Slayers<br><br>???</blockquote><div><br>Rationality. The heroes didn't go "oh, who can say what will occur, let us just meditate on transcendental truth", they went "right, this is a bloody bad situation, screw the this is fate thing, let's figure out what's rationally the best course of action."
<br><br>Granted, a stretch. I plead sloppiness (I wasn't thinking too clearly at the time), but at the same time, a core of truth (I'm not ashamed of having included it in the list).<br></div></div>