<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I agree with the parenthetic comment, though I'd point that recognition can often fuel people to do more work -- and some people do actually enjoy if not do things spefically to be recognized. I find nothing wrong with this as such.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">And maybe a tiny amount of public relations would help here with giving credit where it's due and making sure it doesn't go where it's not.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Of course, if the conventional view of Socrates is close to the truth about him, he was unlikely to have other steal credit from him for being a pest or a gadfly. Surely, there are people who value that and today Socrates is well remembered for it. (And, to respond to the<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> earlier post by Anders, while our knowledge of Socrates does come through the flters of Plato, Aristotle (or whoever took notes during his lectures), Xenophanes, and Aristophanes, it's likely they weren't too far off base.)</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Regards,</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> David Lubkin <lubkin@unreasonable.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:03 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Rejecting Socrates/was Re: Libertarianism wins again...<BR></FONT><BR>Anders wrote:<BR><BR>> My own recipe for cultural immortality: find a new important problem, make a stab at solving it. Even if you fail you will be a seminal character.<BR><BR>I know several people who have solved
important problems, including<BR>myself, who are completely unknown for having done so. The solution<BR>is used pervasively but the creator is forgotten.<BR><BR>Examples: My friend Nat Mishkin invented what Microsoft calls a UUID<BR>about 25 years ago, which pervades computing. The histories usually<BR>erroneously credit Microsoft or OSF. My grandfather came up with<BR>the idea of clocked logic, for the SEAC in 1950. Every computer in<BR>the world uses it now, and he's forgotten altogether.<BR><BR>This annoys me sometimes, but I'd rather change the world than get<BR>credit for it.<BR><BR>(To clarify: I can live with no one being credited; I get ticked off when<BR>a solution is attributed to someone who had nothing to do with it.<BR>Or worse, fought it.)<BR><BR><BR>-- David.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"
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