[ExI] [Extropolis] Thoughts on the manifesto of futurist science (1916).

[efc at swisscows.email]

Who is "we"?

Best regards,
Daniel


On Sat, 10 Jun 2023, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:

> There was a cartoon long ago that was based on the idea of esp.  I showed a group of people around a table.  Each was responding to
> reading someone else's mind, and cursing and so forth "Well, if that's what you think, you total idiot...."  "My nose is ugly, you
> say?  You have the taste of ....."  So things unsaid would be communicated to everyone anyway, and the results would be disaster.  
> 
> No, we don't want esp in any form.  We might go extinct.   bill w
> 
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 5:23 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>       I think it would be wonderful! So much more to explore and the opportunity
>       to better understand the world.
>
>       But I agree, very, very unlikely.
>
>       Best regards,
>       Daniel
> 
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>       On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat wrote:
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>       > On 09/06/2023 01:41, Giulio Prisco wrote:
>       >> If humans have natural ESP abilities, good!
>       >
>       > If anyone turned out to have natural ESP abilities (I'm confident that won't
>       > happen), I think it would be far from good.
>       >
>       > It would basically mean that science is wrong, down to the fundamentals. That
>       > would not be good. Fortunately, it's so unlikely that we can safely discount
>       > it, I reckon.
>       >
>       > Ben
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