[ExI] The entropy of Extropy-Chat

[Jeffery P. Davis]

>
> Welcome Jeff!
>
> Yes it is necessarily a bad thing.  I whacked off your comment at 160
> characters, after giving the spaces for free.  I and plenty of others have
> concluded that real thoughts cannot be adequately expressed in 160
> character
> tweets.  It is a fine medium for HOW R U, and most of what passes today for
> political commentary, but this evanescent medium is inadequate for anything
> that interests me.  So I have refused to tweet.
>


We still have other mediums of communication.  A lot of what needs to be
said can
be said under such limitations.  If people don't feel the need to express
themselves
in more than 160 characters maybe the problem is that they don't have
anything to say
that requires more space.  After reading some of the drivel people post on
Myspace I'm thankful
for the brevity.

I don't want to be stuck in the position of an old dinosaur that's still
sitting around using
e-mail for everything when everyone else has moved on.  :-)

Any way you look at it, mailing lists are in a state of decline because
e-mail is becoming less
popular as a medium.



> I am quick to point out that you are a different Jeff Davis from the well
> known and loved long time ExI poster here.  Have you a nickname?  Have you
> proposal for how we differentiate you from our veteran poster Jeff Davis?
>  I
> think it unwise for the two of you to share a handle.
>


I changed my display name to a fuller version which should help with that
problem.

Being a doppleganger is the curse of my existence.  I'm always running into
situations
with multiple Jeffs, getting mail for the several other Jeff Davis's in my
city, and being
told I look like someone else.  A local meetup group I participate in now
has 3 different
Jeffs despite never drawing a crowd of more than 10 people on average.




>
> In any case, welcome sir!  Do tell us something, anything, (if you wish)
> about the new Jeff Davis please, such as where are you from, what turns you
> on intellectually, etc.
>

I'm 30 years old, male, married, and from an intellectually backwards
mid-sized Ohio
city.

I love discussing big ideas.  Traditionally the go-to person for discussing
'big ideas' has
been the local priest, but over time I've discovered priests are completely
ill-equipped
to deal with the kinds of questions I consider important and thus I've lost
most interest in religion.
They have much less to say on the possibility of godlike AI than they do
say, marriage counseling
which I'm not in need of.  The last one had never even heard of World Of
Warcraft and didn't
know about the affluence gap between Facebook and Myspace.  Hard to take
such a person seriously.

One notable thing about me is that I'm entirely body-negative.  It's not
*my* body I have a problem with,
overall, all human bodies have their issues.  It's the very idea of being
embodied.  The only 'I' that has
any meaning for me is my mind, and having it trapped in a very fragile body
is an accident waiting to happen,
like putting an egg in a cement mixer.  I don't identify with my body at
all.


-- 
"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be
other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be
based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers.
We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can
oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."
- William S. Burroughs
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