[ExI] Avoiding Coarseness in our Dialogs
Lee Corbin
lcorbin at rawbw.com
Sat May 5 02:48:41 UTC 2007
PJ writes
> Restructure politcs. Reinvent religion. Rebuild humanity. Is it all
> just talk, folks? Can't you take a little culture clash? A little artistic
> evolution?
>
> Interesting. What will happen to you when your Singularity arrives?
Cometh the time of our Glorious Singularity, all who surviveth and
dwelleth therein forever shall have 4-digit IQs, and all shall breathe
in the binary straight, without turning as they goeth.
> For a group of people who can type incessantly about how life
> is change and how big change is coming, you are all remarkably
> change-adverse when it comes in this minor form into your own lives.
Ah, but not all change is for the better. I recall someone on this list
going on about how literate (and rightly so, I never got around to
conceding) 19th century America was. If I could just remember
who it was, I'd go back and quote all her posts on the subject...
> PJ (with her dander up)
which might help with the dander problem. :-)
Lee
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