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And it's truly bizarrely funny to find Samantha Atkins being lectured on <br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">> the Singularity by someone who seems, on the ebullient adolescent <br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">> evidence, to be a smart 20 year old who's also just stumbled in to <br style="text-indent: 0px !important; ">> spread the exciting news to those of us who've heard it all before.<div><br></div><div>I made that mistake when I first got here not too long ago too (though I'm regrettably no longer 20.) Until Damien pointed out that the "nerd rapture" comment that I found so witty was as old as Moses. And therefore, I reasoned, so might some of these "new" ideas that I was trying to synthesize and regurgitate faster than my little neurons could carry me. So I decided to shut up for awhile and do-not-pass-go-and-proceed-directly-to Vernor-Vinge. I read all the posts. But the next time I wade in (besides this brief confession) I'll be armed to the teeth.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Darren<br><br><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt"><pre><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif;white-space:normal;font-size:13px;color:rgb(187, 187, 187);line-height:18px"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Times"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#000000">"It is nothing more than a moral prejudice that truth is worth more than semblance"</font></span></span><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Times"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></span></span></div><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Times"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#000000">Frederick Nietzsche, </font><i><font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#000000">Beyond Good and Evil</font></i></span></span></div></span></pre></span></span></font><br><br><br><br>> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:09:13 -0500<br>> From: thespike@satx.rr.com<br>> To: extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>> Subject: Re: [ExI] don't let your guard down, not for a minute...<br>> <br>> On 9/10/2010 6:13 PM, giovanni santostasi wrote:<br>> <br>> > I agree that on the book communism is a far superior social organization<br>> > than capitalism. Capitalism has exploitation as a key element by design.<br>> <br>> The traditional political/ideological coloring of this list has been <br>> libertarian capitalist (aside from a few soft-boiled communitarian <br>> anarchists like me, and clever contrarians like Jeff Davis). It's <br>> remarkable, therefore, to see so many of the newcomers--or at least <br>> posters using unfamiliar names--taking positions like this. Did the word <br>> flash around the Worker's Socialist League, or whatever, that the <br>> transhumanist extropes were open for, um, penetration?<br>> <br>> And it's truly bizarrely funny to find Samantha Atkins being lectured on <br>> the Singularity by someone who seems, on the ebullient adolescent <br>> evidence, to be a smart 20 year old who's also just stumbled in to <br>> spread the exciting news to those of us who've heard it all before. (If <br>> Sing. Utope is really a retired professor of engineering, my mistake and <br>> apologies--no offense intended in any case, merely wondering and <br>> boggling gently.)<br>> <br>> Damien Broderick<br>> [just an innocent bystander & observer]<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> extropy-chat mailing list<br>> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></div> </body>
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