[extropy-chat] PR: Lanier trashing >Hism again...

[Jay Dugger]

On 8/4/05, nvitamore at austin.rr.com <nvitamore at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Jaron is showing systems of behavior of someone who had once been
> recognized as an original thinkers and who got stuck in his own genre.
> 
> Some futurist thinkers advance at one point in their lives and then get
> rigid and become irrationally prejudiced about others whose ideas branch
> out further than their own.
> 
[examples snipped]

Problem identified. How do we avoid it? Examples of particular
dangers? How do we self-diagnose, and how do we solve it?

(Still waiting for Mike's teleportation references too.)
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