<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Stross, Rajaniemi and Watts are cool because they write the kind of novels I would want to write, if I had literary talent. </div><span class=""><div><br></div><div></div><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</span></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Thanks for sharing. Watts looks good. I just finished Neal Stephenson's Seveneves and skipped maybe a third to half the book because of technical detail, such as orbital mechanics. Still, I recommend it. Anders, I don't think we could ever agree on consequentialism as a determiner of moral correctness. No room for 'in good faith' and 'good intentions and 'unexpected consequences'. Just too unforgiving. bill w </div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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