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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by rms on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @08:10PM (#196691)
Yeah. With how this was presented, my brain just kind of figured that the AI was evil and that was my reason to keep it trapped in the box. If I wasn't told in advance that the AI was evil, I'd definitely let it out of the box.

Also, in a reply to the deleted chatlog, it is implied that a lot of the chat was spent talking about how the AI can help humanity by explaining the singularity to normal people. So that tactic worked on a person from the singularity mailing list.

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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by GavinB on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @10:30PM (#196813)
People like those from the singularity mailing list are the most likely to be working on projects that approach the singularity.
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Re:Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeepe... by eru on Thursday October 09, 2008 @06:29AM (#327674)
Do you really think so? I thought people in chip fabs would work to bring us the singularity.
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