<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I read a scifi book many years ago in which no one ever met another person, except by video. Asimov, maybe? Can't remember. Is this the way we are moving? Subtle smells of a person become irrelevant, as does some body language. I dated a beautiful blonde, but only once. She just didn't have the right smell. Her breath wasn't bad but it wasn't 'right' either. Will we stay home and never go out to eat or buy groceries or clothes and miss out on meeting people we would never meet online? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:27 AM spike jones 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 lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_7608671085591048349WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] The Future Is Going to Be Extremely Lonely<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 13/12/2021 17:42, Spike wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdOwhmqP5s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdOwhmqP5s</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is there anyone here who viewed this without learning something new?<u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><p>>…<Raises hand dejectedly><u></u><u></u></p><p>>…I watched more of it than I should have, and it might as well have been in chinese, for all the sense it made.<u></u><u></u></p><p>>…Ben (total maths dunce)<u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>Owwww, my apologies Ben, not everyone is into math.<u></u><u></u></p><p>I am interested in the medium itself as much as this mind-blowing topic. It is a superior means of communicating knowledge, which is really an important thing, because it changes the way we have been doing things since forever. For instance, once a year, math geeks meet in some central venue, such as the convention center at Monterey and share this kinda thing. But now there really is no good justification for the trip. These kinds of videos teach us more, faster and better.<u></u><u></u></p><p>spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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