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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>Max More via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Early Archives... Re: Yudkowsky ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>>…<span style='color:black'> Here it is, from.... wow, almost 30 years ago.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>From: Reilly Jones <<a href="mailto:70544.1227@compuserve.com">70544.1227@compuserve.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Date: 31 Oct 94 17:35:54 EST</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject: [#94-10-621] Zen Physics Enlightenment</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>>…<span style='color:black'>Marvin Minsky wrote 10/30/94: <I don't know why you're so sanguine about Zen</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>enlightenment. I know of no one who has experienced much of it who has also</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>been able to continue to make significant mathematical or physical discoveries</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>…</span>.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Reilly Jones | Philosophy of Technology:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:70544.1227@compuserve.com">70544.1227@compuserve.com</a> | The rational, moral and political relations</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'> | between 'How we create' and 'Why we create'</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If one cruises thru the older archives, one is struck by how much longer was our collective attention span back in those benighted times. We had a prominent ExI guy who specifically expressed stern disapprobation on the posting of short comments, suggesting a ban on one liners. I him posted back with the clever rejoinder: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No way, Jose!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>