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ben wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Anne Corwin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sparkle_robot@yahoo.com"><sparkle_robot@yahoo.com></a>
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<pre wrap="">The "join our camp!" thing is the sort of mentality that generally
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> > causes me to run away screaming from groups of people
Hey, me too!
We should form a group!
ben zaiboc
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<p class="MsoNormal">Transhumanists,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I respect your diversity of belief like this, the
more
diversity the better, but I happen to feel differently.<span style="">
</span>I think canonizer.com has nothing to do with
group think as so many seem to be assuming.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is about one party or religion where
if you
disagree on any issue you are excommunicated or your 'vote is wasted'.
We are
about every individual indicating what they believe on each individual
issue,
resulting in everyone having a dynamic and unique 'signature' of
everything
they believe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is about bottlenecked top down
hierarchies while
we seek after bottom up networks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is about being in the traditional
majority, we
are about recognizing who are the leaders and finding quantitative
rigorous ways
to separate their signal from the group's noise.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is about "our theory is the one true
one"
while we seek to track and quantitatively measure all theories and
their
histories.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is "If you are not with us, you are
against
us" while we believe the more diversity the better.<span style=""> </span>We
want to know what everyone thinks,
believes, and wants.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is about knowing what the guy at the
top wants
and seeking after only that, while we are seeking to know what everyone
at the
bottom wants and seeking after that.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Group think is all about powerful governments and
the top
controlling the masses with invasive laws and powerful militaries and
police
forces.<span style=""> </span>We are about quantitative and
concise reputations and systems that allow the individual to utilize
such to
simply ignore any disreputable spam and scam.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are also frustrated at the terrible way
progressive,
should be leading people, tend to always live by "my way or the
highway" and their tendency to always "run away screaming" from
any kind of cooperative and social effort to help push societies still
primitive herd based morals forward.<span style="">
</span>Transhumanists, as proven by their repeated failures at any type
of
organization and cooperation, or ability to work together, are an
extreme
example of this.<span style=""> </span>We are tired of all
this, and how such leaves the masses to be controlled by the faithless
fear and
war mongering bastards at the top that think they know what is better
for
people at the bottom than they do.<span style=""> </span>It's
time for intelligent people to finally do the co-operative work
required to
develop systems that can enable us to recognize there is something way
better
than dieing and rotting everyone in the grave.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br>
Brent Allsop<br>
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