From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 22:39:17 MDT
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 10:39 pm, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> Hi! I'm back from the Oort cloud again (hopefully on an elliptic
> trajectory);
Welcome back! It just wasn't the same without you. You didn't miss
much.
We debated whether we should kill Luddites, whether children are human,
whether it should be legal to kill children, whether child abuse should
be legal, whether modified humans have to be superior to use the term
"transhuman", whether vegetarianism existed historically, whether the
singularity can be predicted down to the exact day, whether
schizophrenia is really a brain disease, whether we can transmit
messages faster than light, whether we should destroy the earth for
computronium (or just most of it), whether there has been an increase in
bad science or bad logic lately, whether computers are a good metephore
for the brain, whether maximum lifespan is really increasing, whether
Wolfram has really invented a new kind of science, whether Mike should
go to IT Boot Camp, how to tell if you've woken up in a simulation or
not, whether libertarians can take student loans from the government,
how many people felt the earthquake in California (I still blame Spike),
whether Dark Angel is an Extropian show, whether Frontier House is a
Luddite show, whether the common good trumps individual rights, whether
we should have more online chat sessions, which of Ayn Rand's books are
best, ....
Wow, that's only in the past week! Go check the archives. Maybe you
did miss a lot!
Seriously, Welcome Back!
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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