[ExI] The tedium

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 5:23 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I briefly perused recent posts to ExI and I must admit to a certain sense
> of tedium... so much talk about the one whom I will not name, and about the
> wonders of socialism, so few discussions of... interesting stuff.
>

I'm not sure I could get much useful discussion of the projects I'm working
on here.  Discussion derails into how nothing with a time horizon beyond a
few years can possibly matter (as if the Singularity, even assuming it
happens that fast, can rewrite known physics - and that's when the reason
is not political doom and gloom), or there just isn't interest here (trying
to construct what would be one of the largest buildings in North Carolina
to help address local housing needs and urbanization pains is, admittedly,
primarily of local interest).

Even Keith's trash-to-fuel project did not get much discussion.

Have you heard that 75% of all so-called sporadic Alzheimer's disease is
> actually caused by mutations in just one gene (and it's not amyloid)? It's
> ApoE. That's an amazing development, really puts into perspective how
> misguided most AD research was in the past 50 years.
>

I'm waiting for an analysis to see how the research could have gone so far
off track for 50 years, and how that possibility can be identified in other
fields of research before 50 years are spent - and how we know for sure
that this solution is the correct one.

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