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Comment author: wedrifid 01 May 2011 09:47:27PM *  5 points [-]

This is a site devoted to rationality, supposedly. How rational is it to

Comments of this form are almost always objectionable.

It's hyperbole, and, worse, hyperbole that might be both incitement to violence and possibly self-incriminating if one of those people do get shot. If the world where $randomAIresearcher, who wasn't anywhere near achieving hir goal anyway, gets shot, the SIAI is shut down as a terrorist organisation, and you get arrested for incitement to violence, seems optimal to you, then by all means keep making statements like the one above...

Are you trying to be ironic here? You criticize hyperbole while writing that?