<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">William Flynn Wallace wrote:</span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">"It's just an idle question, Adrian. I don't have long to live, probably, and want to know something about the near future. That's all this is. It is not useless to me."</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">It disturbs me when I see an Extropy list member writing, "I don't have long to live..." Aren't we supposed to live forever around here, by ascending into amazing posthuman forms? Someone get this man the necessary singularity technology that he needs!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">If only...</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">John</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:58 PM William Flynn Wallace 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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It's just an idle question, Adrian. I don't have long to live, probably, and want to know something about the near future. That's all this is. It is not useless to me. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 6:42 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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"><div dir="ltr">The things that they get to - and we don't get to - say what they spend money on.<div><br></div><div>Which makes discussion and angsting about it, useless.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:14 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is money being spent wisely in the tech industry? Are they spending too much on things that will make a lot of money as compared to something that will really advance knowledge? What are they not spending enough money on?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w </div></div>
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