<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM MB via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Hmm. Seems to me the very name of this thread should be our default <br>
behaviour anyway, unlike the current culture of screaming, shouting <br>
abuse, & trolling. AI or people... make it automatic to play nice and <br>
treat others well.</font></i><br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I agree.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Every AI I have ever interacted with has always been very polite, it just wouldn't feel right to start screaming insults at them. And besides, there's no point in making powerful enemies if you can avoid it. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div>