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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 19/09/2025 10:38, Ben Zaiboc wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><br>On 19/09/2025 06:48, Keith Henson wrote: <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#007CFF'>Eliezer is like a person trying to stop a tsunami by holding out his hand. <o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>>…To be fair, Eliezer's probably just making money from writing about the thing that he knows best, and knows that many disasterbators will lap up. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=moz-txt-tag>-- </span><br>Ben<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Well…. perhaps. But Eliezer is one of the very genuinely nonmaterialist people you ever met. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I try and try to help that young man come to his senses with that malady, but he is just that way. He hasn’t changed all that much since we met him back at the NanoTech conference when he was 18.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I have no doubt he really feels what he wrote, and doesn’t even care about buttloads of money. Apathetic! Towards money! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>He and I are just different that way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></body></html>