Re: [sl4] JKC, are your views actually amenable to correction, ever?

From: Luke (wlgriffiths@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 01 2009 - 14:26:39 MST


Nerds, all of us. Why do you want to change JKC's mind? - Luke

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> 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
> > www.bradleythomas.com
> > Twitter @bradleymthomas, @instansa
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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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