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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>If I may offer a possible modification of John’s notion, a white raven? It would allude to Poe’s raven whose comment nevermore has a delightfully ambiguous meaning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the other hand, that would give away the usual bad-news connotation as found in Crosby, Stills & Nash (assuming you are old enough) collaboration with Jackson Browne, to produce Crow on the Cradle, where the crow foretells bad futures ahead. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the old days of my misspent youth, there was a legendary caladrius bird, which was said to perch on the foot of the sick bed. If the caladrius faced the patient, he would survive. If it faced away, the hapless prole would perish. However… the caladrius is white. Ravens and crows are always black.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK, I have the answer: we figure out a way to genetically modify a raven so that it is white, sell them as novelty pets, make a buttload.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> spike@rainier66.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ExI] Cold fusion<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Cold fusion<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:41 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>><i> </i></span></span><i>What term could we use for the opposite of a black swan event?</i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br>I don't know, white </span><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>crow</span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> event maybe? Nanotechnology and Cold Fusion aren't the only things that could produce one. … John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>White crow event, I like it. Extropians are, in a sense, the white crow society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>