[ExI] Memes and ghods

[William Flynn Wallace]

In the early days, it
was more about us becoming gods or at least entities with what was
considered godlike powers through nanotech.  I think it could be
summed up as "There are no gods--yet."

Keith

As a personality psychologist, I have an interest in testing.  I like the
Myers-
Briggs, for instance, on which I score as an INTJ.  The shorthand for that
category is Mastermind.  I wonder if any of you have taken that test and
know your scores and will share them with me.  I can forward you an online
test that won't take five minutes (yes, I took it and scored INTJ).  Many
of you come across as being in that category.

bill w



On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:33 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I originated a few memes.
>
> One I can't track.  It's the one that has been on Mythbusters several
> times, the car with a jato bottle.  I worked this out at the dining
> room table at the Druid Studen Center in the early 1960s and spread it
> around to a few dozen people as kind of a joke.  The reason I think I
> might have originated it is that the stories all tend to be set in
> Arizona.  But I really can't tell.
>
> Another which I can track is the Druid registration meme that I
> originated in 1961 during registration.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson#Druid_prank
>
> There are a few ideas I had that I didn't spread out as memes because
> I thought they were not good.  Won't mention them here.
>
> The "world as a simulation" meme I didn't originate, but I was a link
> (as was Hans Moravec) in it becoming a cottage industry in philosophy
> departments. The story was discussed on this list in the early 2000s.
>
> Oh, how the character of this list has changed.  In the early days, it
> was more about us becoming gods or at least entities with what was
> considered godlike powers through nanotech.  I think it could be
> summed up as "There are no gods--yet."
>
> Keith
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