[ExI] Avoiding Coarseness in our Dialogs

[Benjamin Goertzel]

Here you will find a serious essay on

*"Why Hip-Hop is a Transhumanist Force"

[not by me]

;-D
-- Ben G

*http://www.marsdust.com/flossin.htm

On 5/4/07, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/4/07, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
> >
> > BTW Lee, not all hip-hop is violent and/or idiotic.
> >
> > Most of it is, but then as Theodore Sturgeon famously said, 95% of
> > anything is bullshit.
> >
> > It's not my favorite style of music, but condemning a genre of music
> > based on its worst examples is sorta like condemning all orchestral
> > music based on elevator Muzak
> >
> > E.g. buy some CD's by the Roots, that's a fairly intelligent hip-hop
> band,
> > and they actually play real instruments ;-)
> >
>
>
> Well, tie me kangaroo down, sport!
> We've got extropians defending rap music!
>
> It's the end of civilization as we know it.
>
>
> BillK
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