[ExI] Cold fusion

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 20:02:24 UTC 2019


https://theravenspire.blogspot.com/2012/09/white-ravens.html

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 3:05 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> If I may offer a possible modification of John’s notion, a white raven?
> It would allude to Poe’s raven whose comment nevermore has a delightfully
> ambiguous meaning.
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> On the other hand, that would give away the usual bad-news connotation as
> found in Crosby, Stills & Nash (assuming you are old enough) collaboration
> with Jackson Browne, to produce Crow on the Cradle, where the crow
> foretells bad futures ahead.
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> In the old days of my misspent youth, there was a legendary caladrius
> bird, which was said to perch on the foot of the sick bed.  If the
> caladrius faced the patient, he would survive.  If it faced away, the
> hapless prole would perish.  However… the caladrius is white.  Ravens and
> crows are always black.
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> OK, I have the answer: we figure out a way to genetically modify a raven
> so that it is white, sell them as novelty pets, make a buttload.
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> spike
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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:37 AM
> *To:* 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Cc:* spike at rainier66.com
> *Subject:* RE: [ExI] Cold fusion
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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *John Clark
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Cold fusion
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:41 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> > *What term could we use for the opposite of a black swan event?*
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> I don't know, white crow event maybe? Nanotechnology and Cold Fusion
> aren't the only things that could produce one. … John K Clark
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> White crow event, I like it.  Extropians are, in a sense, the white crow
> society.
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