[extropy-chat] Politics

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Russell Wallace wrote:
> 
> Seconded (or thirded, fourthed etc). Anyone who disagrees, let's suppose 
> I got a bunch of Irish friends and we came onto this list and started 
> spamming it with a zillion angry messages a day about Bertie Ahern. 
> Something tells me the moderator wouldn't be quite so tolerant.
> 
> Now there are political discussions that are genuinely extropy-relevant. 
> They just don't tend to involve sphexish bickering about whether the 
> current occupant of $government_building shags sheep.

Well said.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence