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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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 2 May, 2023 2:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Ben Zaiboc <ben@zaiboc.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Observation<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 02/05/2023 21:17, spike wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Upswing is neither. Spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, May 2, 2023, 12:22 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>> Observation: the right wing is stupider than the left, but the left is <br>> sillier. bill w<br><br>Can't argue with that.<br><br>(whatever happened to 'up wing'?)<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>>…No, not upswing. Upwing. Upwingers…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I was on my phone. The dam thing autocorrected me! Why I aughta…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Which reminds me, think of all the times we heard that phrase. The three stooges, a lotta the old movies, the tough guy would say …why I aughta… but never anything after that.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I meant upWING. It also autocorrected my lower case s in spike to upper case. I need to figure out how to turn off autocorrect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>To me that is a philosophy that makes a lot of sense in our times.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>>…Basically a reaction against the established right/left division, and an expression of extropian optimism, I think. "Upwards!, and Onwards!" type of thing. Never seemed to catch on, anyway. Ben<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hey, it sure worked on me. I am inherently optimistic, one of those who believes AI will not kill us all. It might kill us some, and that part will be bad. But I don’t think humanity will become extinct.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>