[ExI] don't let your guard down, not for a minute...

[darren shawn greer]

 And it's truly bizarrely funny to find Samantha Atkins being lectured on > the Singularity by someone who seems, on the ebullient adolescent > evidence, to be a smart 20 year old who's also just stumbled in to > spread the exciting news to those of us who've heard it all before.
I made that mistake when I first got here not too long ago too (though I'm regrettably no longer 20.) Until Damien pointed out that the "nerd rapture" comment that I found so witty was as old as Moses. And therefore, I reasoned, so might some of these "new" ideas that I was trying to synthesize and regurgitate faster than my little neurons could carry me. So I decided to shut up for awhile and do-not-pass-go-and-proceed-directly-to Vernor-Vinge.  I read all the posts. But the next time I wade in (besides this brief confession) I'll be armed to the teeth.
Cheers,
Darren

"It is nothing more than a moral prejudice that truth is worth more than semblance"
Frederick Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil



> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:09:13 -0500
> From: thespike at satx.rr.com
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] don't let your guard down, not for a minute...
> 
> On 9/10/2010 6:13 PM, giovanni santostasi wrote:
> 
> > I agree that on the book communism is a far superior social organization
> > than capitalism. Capitalism has exploitation as a key element by design.
> 
> The traditional political/ideological coloring of this list has been 
> libertarian capitalist (aside from a few soft-boiled communitarian 
> anarchists like me, and clever contrarians like Jeff Davis). It's 
> remarkable, therefore, to see so many of the newcomers--or at least 
> posters using unfamiliar names--taking positions like this. Did the word 
> flash around the Worker's Socialist League, or whatever, that the 
> transhumanist extropes were open for, um, penetration?
> 
> And it's truly bizarrely funny to find Samantha Atkins being lectured on 
> the Singularity by someone who seems, on the ebullient adolescent 
> evidence, to be a smart 20 year old who's also just stumbled in to 
> spread the exciting news to those of us who've heard it all before. (If 
> Sing. Utope is really a retired professor of engineering, my mistake and 
> apologies--no offense intended in any case, merely wondering and 
> boggling gently.)
> 
> Damien Broderick
> [just an innocent bystander & observer]
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