[ExI] shining example and COVID-19 (John Clark)

[SR Ballard]

As someone with an “extremely abrasive” personality, I would love to snap my fingers and be able to change my personality.

Especially to be able to turn it from one way to another at will: from fun-loving and affable, to serious and calculating, and back. 

I would object, however, to someone doing it to me / to children. I think that’s an individual choice.

I think, essentially, I would like control over how my personality is at any given time.

SR Ballard

> On Mar 23, 2020, at 2:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> Like everything else involving humans, the Extropian viewpoint needs
> to be considered in the light of evolutionary psychology.  What do we
> want?  Why do we want it?  Questions, I think, that require
> evolutionary psychology to answer.
> 
> Keith
> 
> When I joined this group one of my main reasons was to get some input relating to psychology.  In particular:  just what changes in humans did we want?  Increase IQ, bolster immune system, etc.  Change our personalities? I got nowhere.  I don't recall one person who replied to that post.  I was flabbergasted and dumbfounded. Still am.  Always open to discuss that topic at any length.
> 
> For instance:  should we be shorter?  Thinner?  More introverted?
> 
> bill w
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:27 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 9:28 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 1:52 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
>> > extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > *> What's amusing is that I made a post that was *much* more politically
>> > > incorrect and it generated no followup comments at all. *
>> >
>> > Yeah I noticed that too. You must have a diplomacy gene that I lack or I
>> > have an abrasive gene that you lack.
>> 
>> Or, as I mentioned, they don't grok.
>> 
>> Like everything else involving humans, the Extropian viewpoint needs
>> to be considered in the light of evolutionary psychology.  What do we
>> want?  Why do we want it?  Questions, I think, that require
>> evolutionary psychology to answer.
>> 
>> Keith
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