[ExI] karp at reagan ndf

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:01 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> Mike my apologies sir, I failed your test.  I tried to spin it positively
> and just couldn’t get there.  Let me sleep on it and try again tomorrow.
>
I appreciate the attempt.

Two thoughts:

1) it was not a test. Maybe it's linguistic pedantry that can be
dismissed... yes, i know what you meant.  But did you consider the
secondary and tertiary messages "between the lines"?  I've been
increasingly observant of how language (in this case,  word choice) is
laden with fragments of viral code - sometimes innocuous to the sender, but
activated upon arrival.  My intent was more open call for novel, non-dismal
outcomes. You considered it a test, then judged your submission a failure.
Hmm.  I suppose one might read my reply as criticism or nag. I hope you
grok my intent for observing another's perspective and gather some
insight.  Tl;dr i suspect there is key principle in this small example that
mirrors the larger spin charge as well, but i think I've not yet found the
words to sufficiently articulate it.  I guess i digress

2) perhaps skip over the troublesome near future.  Plotting a reasonable
path through all the known ways things can go wrong is tedious.  Even if
the path is exceedingly unlikely we can hand-wave those details to tell a
story about how life could be once it had already happened.  Maybe
post-singularity life is discontinuity for a reason inherent in
computational existence?  (I just had a flash of math: Tegmark level IV
mulriverse)  ok yeah, science fiction.. with sufficiently advanced science
indistinguishable from magic.. becoming fantasy?  I know, i know - but
isn't that the purview of imagination?
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