[extropy-chat] Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004

[Adrian Tymes]

It is probably no condolence that there will be many
more - *far* too many more - before we finish
implementing a way around it.  But at least there is
a way to calculate it: multiply this tragedy by the
several million (billion?) between now and then, and
one starts to appreciate the magnitude of the horror
we seek to strike down.

I wonder if this is something like the fictional
Cthuluoid horrors: a terror so deep and profound that
most people can't even acknowledge it, but just go
ever so slowly insane trying to deal with it.  (Like,
say, by inventing a God that causes death and then
believing in God despite all evidence to the
contrary.)