[extropy-chat] give a small window into the military mind

[BillK]

On 7/4/05, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> I would, on the strict grounds that convincing people of ideologies counts for
> nothing - is no triumph for the ideology.  Only what people do matters.  It
> benefits humanity nothing when one more human becomes convinced of, say, the
> Singularity Institute's reading material, unless that human should be
> motivated to do something differently thereby, and even then the belief still
> matters nothing of itself.  This is something that I emphasize in all causes I
> join, doing my helpful part to prevent those causes from becoming religions;
> belief counts for nothing.
> 

Not quite nothing. You mean the intellectual belief that does not
result in any action counts for nothing.
You have to have the belief first as a driving force for your actions.
"machshavosav ni'karos mi'toch ma'asav..."

BillK