[extropy-chat] META: ExI List Quality & Future

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Henrique Moraes Machado (oplnk)"

> Speaking for myself, I know I'm not as smart as some members of this list 
> an I can be hardly classified like "highly intelligent, enormously 
> creative, and exceptionally knowledgeable about science and technology to 
> fit in"

Henrique, IMO you may not be as "smart" as some members about some things, 
but probably smarter than other members about other things.

"Intelligence" itself is difficult to define and, therefore, to measure.  I 
know several people who are "exceptionally knowledgeable about science and 
technology" - but whom I personally (LOL!) do not consider to be intelligent 
in an interdisciplinary way.  I know interior decorators who are 
scientifically inclined, and scientists who attend to evangelical churches 
on Sunday.   (In a facetious aside, if getting on this list would require 
taking a grammar or spelling test, I would probably get in ... but some of 
principals (not principles! ;-)) would not.)

Olga