[ExI] The Actual Visionary of the Future

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 16:36:12 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Kevin G Haskell <kgh1kgh2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> >As Anders Sandberg would say, science is about approximation. Well, so,
> then, perhaps, is this, and perhaps not:
>
>
> >I was once told by 'someone' here that having an Extropian Facebook Page
> would be like
> >drinking quality champagne from plastic glasses, but I always wondered,
> >"why would such a great group of thinkers limit themselves to
> >such an archaic system as a llstserv?
>

Because for deep discussions of deep topics, a listserv still works better
than facebook. If you would like to debate this point, I am up to the
challenge.


> >WTF happened.
>

Facebook happened. And it dumbed us down just like PowerPoint.


> >I've heard this group become overrun by negatarians, not optimists. So...
>

Not so. I remain firmly optimistic along with most of my friends here.


> >This man...I am just happy and privilaged to be alive in the same time
> period that he is.
>

I am privileged to live in an era with spell checkers.


> >This man, this great, great man, is one of the very few who drive
> humanity forward fearlessly.
>

I'm one of the few open fans of Ray on this list. I have been since I read
his dissertation (master's thesis?) on character recognition around 1987.
Well before his first book was published, I was borrowing his thesis
through interlibrary loan. I think a lot like Ray in many ways. He does
have a blind spot for speech recognition being "just around the corner"...
but other than that capitalistic imposed blindness, he's been spot on about
a lot of things.

I believe in the Law of Accelerating Returns, and I think it applies even
more broadly than Ray applies it. I know it is a faith. But I am an acolyte.

-Kelly
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