From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 04:45:34 MST
My impression was that they didn't savage him because he convincingly (and
early) made the argument that everything they're worrying about is very
complex to engineer; it won't be happening on their watch, ergo not their
problem.
Reason
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of Eliezer
> S. Yudkowsky
> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 3:15 AM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Cc: wta-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Steven Pinker testifies before Leon Kass
>
>
> http://www.bioethics.gov/transcripts/march03/session3.html
>
> Steven Pinker gets everything right. Impressive.
>
> I've said this to transhumanists before, I think, but it deserves
> repeating: The evolutionary psychologists are the good guys.
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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