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--></style></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="brent.allsop@canonizer.com" data-contactname="Brent Allsop" class="clickable"><span title="brent.allsop@canonizer.com">Brent Allsop</span><span class="detail"> <brent.allsop@canonizer.com></span></span> , 28/10/2014 4:19 AM:<br><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt">
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<br>Wow, do you remember having this exact conversation 2 years ago? I
started on a reply to your post, and then had that deja-vu feeling,
so I did a quick search and found this:<br>
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<a class="mcntmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2012-December/075438.html" title="http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2012-December/075438.html" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2012-December/075438.html</a></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Good memory! Yes, I had roughly the same feeling when I wrote my quick response. </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div>It seems to me that if you would have taken less time, back then, to
simply include what you said back then, in canonizer.com, rather
than posting it here, our conversation, today, would have been much
improved, rather than degrading, and would have taken far less
time. And, there is a good chance that someone else would have been
able to add to the conversation, in a competing camp, or improving
what you could have said, improving things even further.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe. I am reminded of the debates we had back in the 90s on this list about FAQs too :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I do think you are right, though. If a question does come up repeatedly, the answers or arguments should be written down somewhere easily accessible. There is still no guarantee they will be read by those who need them (that was the conclusion of the many FAQ discussions, I think). </div><div><br></div>OK, I'll try to add some stuff if I get the time today. <br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>