<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">In the early days, it</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">was more about us becoming gods or at least entities with what was</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">considered godlike powers through nanotech. I think it could be</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">summed up as "There are no gods--yet."</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Keith</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">As a personality psychologist, I have an interest in testing. I like the Myers-</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Briggs, for instance, on which I score as an INTJ. The shorthand for that category is Mastermind. I wonder if any of you have taken that test and know your scores and will share them with me. I can forward you an online test that won't take five minutes (yes, I took it and scored INTJ). Many of you come across as being in that category. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:33 PM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I originated a few memes.<br>
<br>
One I can't track. It's the one that has been on Mythbusters several<br>
times, the car with a jato bottle. I worked this out at the dining<br>
room table at the Druid Studen Center in the early 1960s and spread it<br>
around to a few dozen people as kind of a joke. The reason I think I<br>
might have originated it is that the stories all tend to be set in<br>
Arizona. But I really can't tell.<br>
<br>
Another which I can track is the Druid registration meme that I<br>
originated in 1961 during registration.<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson#Druid_prank" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson#Druid_prank</a><br>
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There are a few ideas I had that I didn't spread out as memes because<br>
I thought they were not good. Won't mention them here.<br>
<br>
The "world as a simulation" meme I didn't originate, but I was a link<br>
(as was Hans Moravec) in it becoming a cottage industry in philosophy<br>
departments. The story was discussed on this list in the early 2000s.<br>
<br>
Oh, how the character of this list has changed. In the early days, it<br>
was more about us becoming gods or at least entities with what was<br>
considered godlike powers through nanotech. I think it could be<br>
summed up as "There are no gods--yet."<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
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