[ExI] trutherism: was RE: Social aim for Transhumanism: Betterthinking about issues

Fred C. Moulton moulton at moulton.com
Thu May 20 00:05:49 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:39 -0700, samantha wrote:
> Or at least slowing down a possible tirade from all sides and opinions. 
> :)  But bringing up the woo-woo term was not called for imho at this point.


In my message I did not say that the term woo woo applied to any of the
positions which had been stated.  When I first composed that message I
did have a term which would have referenced one "side" of the discussion
and I took it out and put it woo woo as a non-specific term since in the
past I have seen both sides make wild accusations about what happened as
well as other participants.  Fortunately on this list we have avoided
some of the worst aspects of this.

I do have a personal opinion on all of the topic of World Trade Center
but I am  not going to state it at this time since I think that would
derail the point that I am trying to make.  And I think my second and
third items on the list apply to the majority of things which come up on
this list.

On the general topic of cognition I recently started looking at a the
following short summary of Cognitive Biases and while I have not
reviewed it in depth the first couple of pages look fairly good:
http://www.scribd.com/documents/30548590/Cognitive-Biases-A-Visual-Study-Guide-by-the-Royal-Society-of-Account-Planning
or
http://bit.ly/cnsEYZ

Thanks

Fred





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