[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Brett Paatsch]

Kevin wrote:

> I BELIEVE that most who read that post were able to
> understand that without picking apart the statement to
> find out what I meant. Perhaps I could have said that
> is was a conjecture or a preliminary finding.

Yup. It is a choice. That you have the power to  use the
word or any other has never been in contention. That you
would be stopped or coerced into not using it hasn't either.

Perhaps that's what you wanted to test?

If you think I have an ego, you are right. If you think I
have been arguing the point because of that you are mistaken.

Perhaps all it comes down to, in the end, is whether you
are intellectually persuaded against using it. If you are not
the default meme - which is believing wins and keeps another
vector of propagation. 

I will work with anyone on this list that is willing to work the 
intellectual basis of the argument. My motive for wanting
to work the arguments is self-centred. I live in a world where
I see that democracies set the policy-framework that sets the
upper limits on the rate of  progress that determines whether
I can live or die. 

- Brett