Re: Progress: What does it mean to you?

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 23:19:02 MDT


Eliezer wrote:

>> (Alas, I wish the following were needless to say on
>> an extropian list, but I must add that, following Dawkins,
>> of course we wish to rebel against many of our genes,
>> perhaps even those that inspire us to profligacy.)

>Or as I like to put it:
>
>"The human goal system is not consistent under reflection."

That *sounds* good. But how is it an advance on pointing
out simply that the entire "goal system" is inconsistent?

Or is "under reflection" a pun for "on reflection"?

Lee



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:07:54 MST