Re: Simplify! A modest proposal to shorten this name....

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 10:42:50 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:

> Monads.

No. Rhymes with gonads, imagine the lame jokes.

> Spikesters.

Hey cool! I like it.

> ...smacks of cultism. It's peculiar....

But we like peculiar.

> Do geologists name each other `granitists' (admittedly, some of them are
> schists)?

Or schisters.

> Is Stephen Jay Gould a `punctuated equilibrian'?

Hey, its easier to say than equilibertarian, altho I prefer the longer
version in that case.

> Call yourselves Elians, and win a fine Cuban cigar!

The even shorter "Elis" is already taken by those who attended Yale.

> ...Damien Broderick...

Now see, Damien, if you had slanted The Spike more towards the
Singularitarianism, they could be called Damiens. {8^D Actually
we might want to reserve that as a unit of measure, such as one
Damien equals one human equivalent of machine intelligence. spike



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