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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darin Sunley via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…If you sent 25-years-ago-me the single sentence "In 2023, Eliezer Yudkowsky will get published in Time magazine responding to a proposal to halt or at least drastically curtail AI research due to existential risk fears." I would probably have concluded I was already in a simulation…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>25 years ago you? If you had sent this to my 25 days ago me, my mind would have boggled.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…And I'm not certain I would have been wrong… Darin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Welp, he’s onto us, you guys. Time to end that sim and start a new one. He figured it out in about 25 years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>