Joshua Fox wrote:
 > Turing also committed suicide.
And Chislenko. Each of these people had different circumstances, and
suicide strikes everywhere, but I wonder if there is a common thread.

"Ramanujan, like many other great mathematicians and achievers, died young. There are on the other hand many great mathematicians and achievers that lived to old age. I dare not say whether it is dangerous to be a genius without access to more complete statistics."
        -- Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro
        - http://www.nada.kth.se/~kai/lectures/geb.html

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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