[ExI] spike-ism, was: RE: A potential COVID-19 vaccine

[William Flynn Wallace]

I am duly honored.  Since 'pope' means daddy, you will be the Big Daddy and
I will be a Little DAddy.
bill w

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] A potential COVID-19 vaccine
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> >>…In the religion I invented, it is the opposite: you get points for
> disbelieving.  When I explain it to people, some say, oh that is silly.  Of
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> skepticism rather than faith.  spike
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> >…But wait a minute here.  If presented with a belief, I deny it, getting
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> the presented belief, which you then have to deny again to maintain
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> >…That reads like a positive feedback cycle to me.  Your religion is
> based on a premise of not creating positive feedback loops and your own
> religion creates them, so in essence the religion is denying itself.
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> >…bill w
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> BillW, I nominate you as the second pope of spike-ism.  I am the first of
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> Since spike-ism is based on eliminating positive feedback loops.  You
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> based on skepticism refutes itself, thus reinforcing itself.
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> Kurt Gödel would be so proud of you sir.
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> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:50 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >>…In traditional religions, belief in that religion is a virtue: saved by
> faith, which is you get points for believing.  In the religion I invented,
> it is the opposite: you get points for disbelieving.  When I explain it to
> people, some say, oh that is silly.  Of course that promotes them to higher
> status in the religion that values skepticism rather than faith…spike
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