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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders Sandberg<br><b>…</b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><span style='color:windowtext'>>…</span>I think that when the history of this era is written, this list will be mentioned as an important intellectual forum. And then people will all think we were standing around the salon in togas, having erudite conversations. Nobody will remember flamewars about gun rights or punfests. I suspect the same is true for our historical writing - the Greek symposia did leave hints in the form of messy drinking games (kottabos, anyone?)<span style='color:windowtext'>…Anders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'>I do disagree with one comment Anders made above: future beings will loooove the ExI punfests. They demonstrate that the smart guys had a sense of humor too, an aspect often neglected. What did Newton, Maxwell, Euler, Einstein, and the other supernovae do to have fun? We don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'>Remember who it was who periodically reminded us about posting goofy stuff that would embarrass us later in life? That was Eliezer Yudkowsky. I never treated the old posts seriously, always posting any silly idea that popped into my head, always treated it like a big raucous ongoing party, never worrying a minute about the archives and Eliezer’s comment that rings in my eyes to this day: the internet never forgets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:windowtext'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>