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

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Spoken like a true dogmatic. "Off to the reeducation camps with him!"

Yes, Big Sister.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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