[ExI] Finally!

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Joseph Bloch
<seculartranshumanist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at canonizer.com> wrote:
>> On 4/21/2012 2:55 PM, Alan Grimes wrote:
>>> Google just confirmed that is the first time anyone has used that phrase
>>> so therefore I don't know what you mean by that "phenomenal" adjective.
>>
>> I don't know what Google you're using, but I see the top hit in Google for
>> "phenomenal uploading" being the canonizer camp that concisely defines just
>> what it is, and which indicates how many people are in this, and the parent
>> uploading is good camp.
>
> I daresay he's using the Google that, when the phrase "phenomenal mind
> uploading" is entered into it, only brings up this email thread,
> because your original email was the first time it was ever used. That
> phrase, not your redacted version, is what he was referring to (note
> the inclusion of the word "mind" in there, which you had originally
> used, and which you conveniently removed in your reply). And he is
> correct. Nobody before you had ever used it. Whatever "the canonizer
> camp" might think, nobody else cares.
[blah blah blah snipped because it was rude and I feel it's just as
rude to requote]
> I don't have a dog in the uploaders vs. non-uploaders debate, but I do
> know that we could convincingly upload your personality to a computer
> today. Just have it spit out the words "canonizer,com" into 50% of
> every email thread, regardless of topic, and it would be a convincing
> facsimile.

Why such venom?  If you don't like reading Brent, you could surely
have created a filter in your email in less time than writing ...
well... all that you wrote.

I don't expect that everyone will get along all the time - but can't
we be mature enough to ignore each other in a civil way?