[extropy-chat] A ROOM-TEMPERATURE PALM-SIZED NUCLEAR FUSION DEVICE

[Samantha Atkins]

On Apr 27, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>
> --- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>> What has happened to the list? Here we have the first simple, fully
>> replicable,
>> fully understood benchtop fusion device, and the only two responses
>> are dismissive.
>
> You think I'm surprised? This is exactly the malaise I've been pointing
> out for a few years now. If AI spontaneously happened somewhere
> tomorrow, most of this list would be posting critical swipes at it for
> at least a few weeks. Eli will have an explanation of how un-friendly
> it is, Samantha will call it a conspiracy of the Bush Skull-and-Bones
> crowd to con the people into worshipping it, Hal will insist that it is
> a put-on, and Kevin will post links to a group claiming to admit to the
> hoax. "It is far too early," many will say, "It's not supposed to
> happen yet [according to transhumanist dogma]", "even though we have
> doubts about Moore's Law's validity."


That is enough!  I have had it with your vicious theories and spitting 
nastiness.  Now you put words in the mouths of  list members and attack 
them outright?  It is time you became reacquainted with the penalty 
box.

- samantha