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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> William Flynn Wallace <foozler83@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 17, 2020 8:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> spike <spike@rainier66.com>; ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> humility<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>OK, Spike, did you flunk this test?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>from Quora<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>>…<span style='color:#282829'>I really like the Paradox of Humility. It’s effectively equivalent to the Socratic paradox, but brings the concept of sufficiency into the equation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing:border-box'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>>…<span style='color:#282829'>Where humility is considered a virtue one must ask how one would be aware that one possesses that virtue. In short <i>how much </i>of <i>what </i>must you do or have to be rightly regarded as ‘humble’?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'>Ah BillW, of course I understand this paradox. We cannot assess our own humility, which is why we had to organize the competition to start with: have others assess it for us. Finding suitable judges for that is crazy difficult. In order to be qualified, they have to be unqualified.<span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#282829'>>…This is why Ben FRanklin could not add humility to the list of virtues he tried to achieve. He understood the paradox. bill w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>Franklin tried and tried, but he was a piker at the humility game. Just beating him at that game caused me to lose to him at that game.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>>…<span style='color:#282829'>The paradox arises from the fact that humility cannot be self-identified, since it is defined by a regard for oneself that assigns greater importance to others. When one is assessing one’s own humility then humility cannot be demonstrated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829'>This is partly correct, but the part about assigning a greater importance to others is but one event in the multi-event humathlon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=gmail-q-text style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing:border-box'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>