On 5/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Metavalent Stigmergy</b> <<a href="mailto:metavalent@gmail.com">metavalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/15/06, Russell Wallace <<a href="mailto:russell.wallace@gmail.com">russell.wallace@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I never thought I'd wish for the day when the "need a fantasy to latch<br>> onto" crowd just waited for the mothership to beam them up. Being a
<br>> pessimist only means _most_ of your surprises are pleasant ones.<br><br>I don't quite follow your comment, Russel. If you are saying that<br>increasingly impressive life extension is a fantasy, or that the<br>continual improvement of AI is a fantasy, I'd be interested to learn
<br>what data or personal observations you use to form those particular<br>characterizations. Not saying you're wrong, just interested in how<br>you got there.</blockquote><div><br>
Your not following is more my fault than yours, since it wasn't
terribly clear (spare time to write posts when I'm _not_ exhausted
isn't amazingly thick on the ground, alas), but I'll try and expand on
it and explain my reasoning under a separate subject line.<br>
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