From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Tue Dec 01 2009 - 13:27:09 MST
I don't have any evidence, yet, that he's actually a *liar*. If he
asserted, in clear plain English, that he seriously meant that he'd
alter his views if I found 42 CS Ph.D.s to say this (which is only a
matter of finding 42 of them in the first place, after all), I might
actually bother, just for my own amusement.
-Robin
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:22:32PM -0500, Bradley Thomas wrote:
> >Since that's the Guide number, I have to ask if you're being flippant
> before I put in that kind of work.
>
> How would you even know that he wasn't being flippant in any denial of being
> flippant!?
>
> Brad Thomas
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org] On Behalf Of Robin Lee
> Powell
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:15 PM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: Re: [sl4] JKC, are your views actually amenable to correction,
> ever?
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:07:24PM -0800, John K Clark wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 "Robin Lee Powell" <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> > said:
> >
> > > How many computer science Ph.D.s would I have to get to say, in
> > > writing, that that's utter nonsense for you to thoroughly
> > > re-evaluate your position?
> >
> > 42
>
> Since that's the Guide number, I have to ask if you're being flippant before
> I put in that kind of work.
>
> -Robin
>
> --
> They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm
> thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the
> default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
>
-- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
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