[extropy-chat] META: ExI List Quality & Future

[Adrian Tymes]

--- "kevinfreels.com" <kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:
> This is BS. Plain and simple. Since when was shutting out those
> deemed
> "inferior" been any benefit to any society?

See: jails, crime, economic effects of crime.

> How many times have baffled scientists gathered together and been
> unable to
> solve somthing when suddenly the answer comes out of some left-field
> source
> as a patent clerk or a med school dropout? How much "noise" has been
> created
> by such people as Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Tesla, Hawking, etc?

"They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown."

Just because someone is a school dropout, does not by itself
automatically make their words worth listening to.  (Insert
other obvious statements here, but this needed saying.)

> But don't take a public list and turn it private as a solution to
> your
> problem. If there is a small group of people here who wish to have
> some
> smaller forum without noise, perhaps THEY should do the leaving.

Public forums with minimal noise are of benefit - sometimes, to
some groups, even measurable benefit.  See all the laws against
making a disturbance - it's not so much the disturbance itself
that is a negative, as the taking away from the public, the
value of a forum in which to discuss certain things.