<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:30 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">John aren’t you glad we have a constitution?</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">C'mon, I'm glad it's illegal for cops to murder citizens too.. but that shit is happening more frequently than it makes the news.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And sure, Rafal can call me out for circumstantial beliefs founded on non-experiential data. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We predict the next moment in order to prepare. Most people predict moments measured in subsecond intervals. Maybe with practice, attention to detail, and accurate assignment if salience one could reach into the future by minutes/hours/days. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm suggesting that perhap John is assigning different probabilities than you to next moments and continuing to extrapolate. That compounds margin of error, sure. However, dismissing a potential future because of who names it first is a bad bias to have.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In this extropy hive mind, some posters will be excitatory while others are inhibitory. A properly functioning brain is balanced.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I may not always see the point of a constant stream of pain, but I know it serves a purpose. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Idk, maybe i have no point and no purpose here.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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