[extropy-chat] stranger than fiction

[Mike Lorrey]

I actually read that Penrose article in Discover Magazine.

--- Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:

> Amara Graps wrote:
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky :
> > 
> >> Truth isn't stranger than fiction, but sometimes it comes pretty
> close.
> > 
> > You might like this:
> > 
> > http://www.amara.com/stranger/str_fiction.html
> 
> You've got at least one fake item, from the Weekly World News.  (Not
> only 
> that, it's marked "Weekly World News" in the byline.)  Triggering my 
> suspicions was this text:  "The slide struck him in the worst
> possible 
> place--the vulnerable spot just behind and below the left ear. Bone 
> fragments pierced his brain, killing him instantly."
> 
> I like News of the Weird's new feature where they have three true
> items and 
> one made-up item.  Like I always say, the measure of your strength as
> a 
> rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by
> reality. 
>   It's a good test of my ability to see if I can spot the most
> confusing 
> item.  I'm proud to say I spotted the Weekly World News item as fake
> before 
> I noticed the byline, and that I went back and searched and didn't
> find any 
> others.
> 
> -- 
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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