<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">As someone with an “extremely abrasive” personality, I would love to snap my fingers and be able to change my personality.<div><br></div><div>Especially to be able to turn it from one way to another at will: from fun-loving and affable, to serious and calculating, and back. </div><div><br></div><div>I would object, however, to someone doing it to me / to children. I think that’s an individual choice.</div><div><br></div><div>I think, essentially, I would like control over how my personality is at any given time.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 23, 2020, at 2:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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">Like everything else involving humans, the Extropian viewpoint needs</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">to be considered in the light of evolutionary psychology. What do we</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">want? Why do we want it? Questions, I think, that require</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">evolutionary psychology to answer.</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">When I joined this group one of my main reasons was to get some input relating to psychology. In particular: just what changes in humans did we want? Increase IQ, bolster immune system, etc. Change our personalities? I got nowhere. I don't recall one person who replied to that post. I was flabbergasted and dumbfounded. Still am. Always open to discuss that topic at any length.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">For instance: should we be shorter? Thinner? More introverted?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:27 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 9:28 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 1:52 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<br>
> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> *> What's amusing is that I made a post that was *much* more politically<br>
> > incorrect and it generated no followup comments at all. *<br>
><br>
> Yeah I noticed that too. You must have a diplomacy gene that I lack or I<br>
> have an abrasive gene that you lack.<br>
<br>
Or, as I mentioned, they don't grok.<br>
<br>
Like everything else involving humans, the Extropian viewpoint needs<br>
to be considered in the light of evolutionary psychology. What do we<br>
want? Why do we want it? Questions, I think, that require<br>
evolutionary psychology to answer.<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
extropy-chat mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br>
</blockquote></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>