[ExI] Help, help, I'm being oppressed! *cry* Was: Reminder about List Behavior

[William Flynn Wallace]

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 2:41 AM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On 21 Jan 2021, at 16:48, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:03:36 +0000
> From: ExiMod <ExiMod at protonmail.com>
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> Subject: [ExI] Reminder about List Behavior
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> The first item on the Exi-Chat Guide is
> 1) Be polite. We do not allow personal attacks or defamatory statements on
> Exi-Chat.
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> However, if someone describes a family tradition of protein hijacking, it
> is perfectly acceptable to refer to them as protein hijackers in the future
> in a completely non-defamatory way.
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> Vigorous debate must avoid name-calling.
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>
> Can you imply things and let the dumb asses pick up the label and attach
> it to themselves?
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> Your opponents are not idiots or insane.
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> RANDyness, however, is basically codified sociopathy, so, if you want to
> avoid diagnosis as a sociopath, just start talking about how bad altruism
> is.
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> Our list members come from diverse backgrounds, with different histories
> and sometimes English is not their first language. Allowance should be made
> for communication misunderstandings.
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>
> Agree, Yoda does! Sorry Yoda is a snowflake melt he did!
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> Swearing is not forbidden,
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> Thank fuck for that!
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> though it may hinder understanding by provoking an emotional backlash.
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> Sometimes, emotional backlash (assuming the subject is capable of feeling
> normal human emotion) is what initiates understanding. One could make an
> argument that the lack of emotions in an AI inhibits them from true
> understanding.
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> Some members may live among cultures where swearing is prevalent, even
> daringly fashionable, but it should be minimised in written communication.
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> Sometimes, just sometimes, swearing and mockery is performance art and
> done completely intentionally.
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> Regards, ExiMod
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> Regards,
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> Omar
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