[ExI] Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Singularitarian Principles. Update?

Ben Zaiboc bbenzai at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 13 15:34:45 UTC 2010


Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> exclaimed:

> On 11/12/2010 11:09 PM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
> 
> > (Example:   in the context of human
> reasoning research,
> > he claimed comprehensive knowledge of the area but
> then had to look in
> > Wikipedia, in the middle of our argument, to find out
> about one of the
> > central figures in that field (Johnson-Laird)).
> 
> That *is* dismaying!
> 


Hm.

I'm rather surprised to hear anyone on this list call the outsourcing of knowledge "dismaying".

What /would/ be dismaying is if he didn't know how to quickly find relevant information.

Ben Zaiboc


      




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