[extropy-chat] What Human Minds Will Eventually Do (was StringTheory)

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Russell Wallace wrote:
> On 6/26/06, *Olga Bourlin* <fauxever at sprynet.com 
> <mailto:fauxever at sprynet.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Aiii, apples and oranges.  Russell, Russell, Russell ... Julia Child
>     is spinning in her grave.  And foodies all over the world are
>     shaking their heads "Tsk, tsk, tsk ..." :)
> 
> And it wouldn't surprise me at all if people in 500 years react exactly 
> the same way to the suggestion that space habitat construction be left 
> entirely to the machines :)

You don't need to wait 500 years, I've got the same reaction right now.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence