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Note: This is a LIE.
The correct quote was that I said on SL4 that when Douglas Lenat switched on Eurisko, essentially the first time anyone had ever built a Turing-complete freeform genuinely recursive self-modifier with heuristics modifying heuristics, he ought to have evaluated a 5% chance of it going FOOM.
I was 4 years old when Eurisko was switched on, and could not possibly have said anything at the time.
Declan McCullagh. Write it down. Never trust him.
No matter how many terrible things you've heard about the mainstream press, you truly cannot appreciate how bad it really, really is until you have been reported on yourself. It is at least two orders of magnitude worse than you think it is from reading Reddit.
The Wired article has a comments section, with 0 comments. You should probably put a response there.
Very true.
As someone who has worked in the industry i can tell you that the process of creating news stories is remarkably similar to that of producing chicken nuggets -- although, probably not as sanitary.
In particular, the tech press should be greeted with gunfire.
(There are exceptions - there's even two people at the Register I'd ever speak to under any circumstances - but even if you know and trust the journalist in question personally, be prepared for their editor to screw you both over.)
The mainstream press can't work technology more complicated than scissors, but they have occasionally heard the word "journalism."
Really - unless you're actually selling computer technology, there is no reason to deal with the tech press under any circumstances. The canonical example of "taking people seriously just because they pay you attention is often not a good idea." If only WIkipedia had worked that one out early on ...
(I wouldn't count Wired as "mainstream press", but the scary thing about your tale is that Declan McCullagh has a generally good reputation for a tech journalist.)