[ExI] Best case, was Hard Takeoff

[John Grigg]

Samantha Atkins wrote:
>Well, it does get tiresome seeing the same questions, the same opinions, the >same arguments made and refuted, over and over and over again.   Are we failing
>to learn anything and thus endlessly chewing the same cud?

But new people (for whom it is all very novel) get involved in these
endlessly repeating threads, and so they become educated about
transhumanism and things related to it.  And new permutations are
added onto old discussions, due to various current scientific and
social developments, which give appeal to the list old-timers.

John


On 11/21/10, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 3:10 PM, John Grigg wrote:
>
>> Aleksai wrote:
>> Yeah. It's really painful to read transhumanist mailing lists these
>> days, the quality of discussion is so low. (This is true of SL4 too,
>> though there it's more a matter of silence. All the quality discussion
>> seems to have moved to e.g. certain blogs and websites, instead of
>> mailing lists, which were on the intellectual forefront in ages past.)
>>>>>
>>
>> I am so tired of people whining about this subject! lol  I remember
>> when I first joined this list *eleven* years ago, people were pining
>> for the "golden age" of years past...
>>
>
> Well, it does get tiresome seeing the same questions, the same opinions, the
> same arguments made and refuted, over and over and over again.   Are we
> failing to learn anything and thus endlessly chewing the same cud?
>
> - s
>
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