[extropy-chat] how partisanship skews perception

Samantha Atkins samantha at objectent.com
Wed Oct 27 08:31:35 UTC 2004


On Oct 23, 2004, at 7:41 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> Firstly, they are not MY ultra-socialists.
>
> Secondly, I find your attitudes here rather wanting. If extropians are
> such big supporters of futures markets being the best predictors of
> facts and future events, and futures markets behave according to price
> signals created by mass consensus, and mass consensus is that Iraq was
> involved in al Qaeda, isn't that more true than the flawed intelligence
> agencies conclusions that totally missed the events leading up to 911?
>

Whoa.  You believe that mass consensus created by the administration, 
in large from whole cloth, means that that mass consensus determines 
what is actually true?    Surely you are joking.

The administration itself severely restricted some of those agencies 
from doing their jobs regarding terrorism before 9/11.   Do you think 
those agencies and everything they say should be discredited because 
they were not allowed to do their jobs?

I am not capable of believing that you believe what you are writing.   
Or maybe I lack a compatible sense of humor.

- samantha




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