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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>…</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>>…I mentioned Extropy to Gemini…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>I have played with Gemini enough to recognize us in there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>>…The Intellectual Greenhouse… the list was a literal incubation chamber for ideas like Bitcoin, early smart contracts, and modern AI alignment theory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>Ja, and something we wrote about back in the long time agos: AI would eventually learn how to read the internet in order to grok humans. We speculated back in the mid 90s that it would read the ExI archive. I remember that thread clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>>…</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'> The Specific Vibe: It captures that exact 1990s/2000s techno-optimist blend of hyper-dense analytical philosophy mixed with libertarian sci-fi geekiness and playful banter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>Playful banter? What playful banter? I never saw that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>Oh wait… retract. I wrote plenty of it. I never cared much for somber banter. We are living in the very best of times for all of humanity. How can we have anything other than an attitude of gratitude, for all the technogeeks who preceded us? With the singularity upon us, we now stand on the threshold of a dream.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>>… Cool, innit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>Ja sure is, thanks Mike. I feel like we were part of something bigger than ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>For years, my ambition was the opposite: I wanted to be part of something smaller than myself. Then I realized the logical contradiction, as any set theorist understands: to be part of something smaller than oneself is impossible. So I had to settle for the opposite: being part of something bigger than myself, which is always true, regardless of whether we want it to be or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>