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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Respectfully,</span></font></div>

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From: Natasha Vita-More <natasha@natasha.cc><br>
To: 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] few bits per second<br>
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<div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: small" class="Apple-style-span"><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2">D<span class="703483322-27062010">amian wrote:</span></font></font></font></span></font></div>
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goal of reaching that future is far more important than any of these really 
rather piffling issues?</span></div>


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does.  The goal of reaching the future is related to our ability 
to deal with "piffling issues".   Small issues form 
larger issues.   It is a our behavior that turns them into 
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