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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple 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>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Microsoft wants to reincarnate people as chatbots<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>…<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Fwiw, I've noticed people take everything I say in the worst way possible... so this disclaimer is to assure Brent that I'm razzing him as a sibling in this ExI family and not cyberbullying. That's maybe a conversation for another thread…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eh, Mike, humor is still allowed, even in our stressed out times. Brent is the kind of guy who has a sensa huma. I met him at one of the Extros, mighta been 5 in about… 2001? San Jose? I was not disappointed. Brent I only wish we woulda had more time. That was an insanely busy time for me at work, but I have fond memories of that meeting. I need to get busy writing a memoir about while I still have you guys available. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, Mike, regarding your comment “…I've noticed people take everything I say in the worst way possible...” gave me an idea. To verify or disprove such a notion, we need to somehow create a list of possible ways people can take everything you say. That is a heeeeellll of a job in itself, but once we do, we can put those ways to take everything in a spreadsheet and sort from best to worst, see if people always find the way they take the stuff you say at the bottom of that list.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Once we do that, we end up with a new and interesting question: how can we know… that a particular way to take everything is really the worst possible way?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How many here were at Extro5 please? I know some who were there for sure: Amara Graps, Anders Sandberg, Robert Bradbury, Brent, Max More, Natasha More, among others, I think Sasha Chislenko was not there, Greg Burch wasn’t, I might be wrong on both of those guys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>