Jayson_Virissimo comments on Suggest alternate names for the "Singularity Institute" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 19 June 2012 08:46:02AM *  3 points [-]

The I.J. Good Institute-- I have no idea what the IJ stands for.

Irving John ("Jack").

I would guess that exactly zero of my non-Less Wronger friends have ever heard of I. J. Good.

Comment author: ciphergoth 19 June 2012 09:50:09AM 7 points [-]

I would guess that exactly zero of my non-Less Wronger friends have ever heard of I. J. Good.

Which is fine; to everyone else, it's some guy's name, with moderately positive affect. I'd be less in favour of this scheme if the idea of intelligence explosion had first been proposed by noted statistician I J Bad.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 19 June 2012 12:38:03PM *  1 point [-]

Now I have Johnny C Bad playing in my head.

(Well, not really, but it made for a fun comment.)

Comment author: ciphergoth 19 June 2012 04:11:06PM 1 point [-]

Better than Johnny D Ugly.