[ExI] Question re Website Software - Dreamweaver

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2014-01-07 18:42, spike wrote:
> What would it look like from inside a weird ivory tower?  Everyone inside
> would not appear weird or dissociated from reality, for that would be the
> local reality.  So everyone outside that ivory tower would appear
> dissociated and weird.  They would be living in a world surrounded by weird
> people, walking around everywhere.  The ivory-towerers would observe those
> out there don't even know they are weird.
>
> Cool, I want to go there.

You should totally visit us in Oxford! We have a fun gang in our ivory 
tower.

The problem among the dreaming spires and towers is that it is not just 
the people outside that look weird-but-doesn't-know-it. It is all those 
other academics too! The ivory tower across the street is full of 
theologicians, and a the weird-looking one with the telescope full of 
astronomers. Both think *we* are weird. Which is strange when you spend 
so much time looking at concepts that might not have any referent or 
counting stars that have exploded by now anyway. Only we philosophers 
are self-aware enough to know that we are pompous weirdos who can't even 
see how weird we are! :-)

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University