In a message dated 3/17/2008 1:00:31 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, scs@eskimo.com writes:
Will, chill. This isn't that big a deal; in fact, it isn't a deal at all.>>
------------------- Anytime the principles of equality and egalitarianism are challenged I will speak. No one deserves to be put into a caste that segregates one group from another, no matter how minor that would appear to be superficially.
Seperating some, with the rule of law, into special classes is exactly what Ayn spoke against, and much more vocally than I. It is what Orwell spoke against as well. Once you create a power-based for one class of people, they tend to accumulate more power over time without restriction.
And yes there is a very simple method of countering this. Whether it takes 10 times the CPU cycles should be irrelevant. If CPU cycles are put ahead of human beings in our projects, then we've already lost.
So yes, it's a big deal. Just the idea that people can contemplate that it isn't... that is also a big deal.
Each human participant is far more important than any computer system.
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