[extropy-chat] Islamic morons win yet again

[Anna Taylor]

Damien wrote:
they could do things with their lives in addition to producing and
looking after one child after another after another...The

Somebody wrote:
matter of total mystery to me is *why.*  I don't
have the least idea of why women would restrict family
size at the times they did.  Any ideas would be
appreciated.

Anna writes:
I think that's a good beginning:)
Why is it that man or woman would not want to reproduce?

Just curious
Anna:)


On 10/1/06, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
> Damien Broderick wrote:
> > At 12:14 PM 9/30/2006 -0700, Eliezer wrote:
> >
> >>+1 insightful:
> >>http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/1700/
> >>"Iraq: the world's first Suicide State"
> >
> > A learned friend writes:
> >
> > <What utter crap.  Violence motivated by the desire to expel foreign
> invaders
> > or colonizers, to restore the historical dominance of one ethnic or
> > religious group or to establish a new structure of dominance, or to impose
> a
> > particular set of religious rules--goals which are held by the various
> > indigenous factions who are killing people in Iraq--is hardly "fighting
> for
> > nothing in particular."  There isn't one manifesto that fits everybody
> > toting a gun or a bomb--there are a number of contending factions--but the
> > fact that it can't all be summed up easily in this guy's PowerPoint
> > presentation doesn't make it "aimless."  Different participants have
> > different aims.  This is far from unusual--consider the various factions
> > involved in the South African resistance.>
>
> Fair enough.
>
>   - E
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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