<div>Spike wrote:</div> <div>spike, <BR><BR>who is in the mood for a little silliness on a gorgeous Sunday <BR>afternoon in<BR>June. I hope ye are enjoying being alive this fine day, and think <BR>often of<BR>how lucky we are to have been born so late in human history.<BR>></div> <div> </div> <div>I keep on asking myself "was I simply just *lucky* to have been born when I was?" Did we all simply win some sort of uncaring cosmic lottery to have been born in this time period and in the developed world? I don't think of myself as a lucky guy and so this line of thinking really disturbs me. But then I come from a religious background.</div> <div> </div> <div>My brand-new nephew, Luc who was born last December is a dang lucky one! lol As long as his health holds out and an accident or violence doesn't claim him, he stands a good chance of actually seeing the Singularity we all love to post about.
And both his parents are very bright people so he is probably quite equipped to handle the challenges ahead.</div> <div> </div> <div>John Grigg </div> <div> </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>spike <spike66@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">...<BR>> bounces@lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins<BR>...<BR>> On Jun 3, 2007, at 10:23 AM, John K Clark wrote:<BR>...<BR>> > ... probability of your keyboard turning into a<BR>> > teapot is greater than zero (and it is) ...<BR>> <BR>> This is getting incredibly silly. There is nothing in science or<BR>> physics that will allow one macro object to spontaneously turn into a<BR>> totally different macro object... - samantha<BR><BR><BR><BR>It's all in how you define the term teapot. You spill your tea into your<BR>keyboard; that keyboard now both contains tea and
heats it, since there are<BR>electronics in there. So your keyboard has become a teapot (assuming a very<BR>loose definition of the term.)<BR><BR>Insincerely yours <BR><BR>spike, <BR><BR>who is in the mood for a little silliness on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in<BR>June. I hope ye are enjoying being alive this fine day, and think often of<BR>how lucky we are to have been born so late in human history.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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