Hm. Memory may be tricking me.
I did a deeper scan of my mind, and found that the only memory I
actually have is that someone at the conference said that they saw I
wasn't in the room that morning, and then looked around to see if
there was a bomb.
I have no memory of the "fire" thing one way or the other, but it
sounds like a plausible distortion of the first event after a few
repetitions. Or maybe the intended meaning is that, if I saw a fire
in a room, I would leave the room first to make sure of my own safety,
and then shout "Fire!" to warn everyone else? If so, I still don't
remember saying that, but it doesn't have the same quality of being
the first to defect in an iterated prisoner's dilemma - which is the
main thing I feel I need to emphasize heavily that I will not do; no,
not even as a joke, because talking about defection encourages people
to defect, and I won't be the first to talk about it, either.
So I guess the moral is that I shouldn't toss around the word
"absolutely" - even when the point needs some heavy moral emphasis -
about events so far in the past.
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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