From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Jun 03 2002 - 21:46:28 MDT
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>>Eliezer wrote:
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> THE ARROW OF TIME
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>>Stuff That Sucks ---->----> Stuff That Limps ---->----> Stuff That Works
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> ^ ^ ^
> | | |
> | YOU ARE HERE |
> AYN RAND IS HERE THIS IS AFTER
> THE SINGULARITY
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I break my temporary self imposed silence to inject one small point.
When one posts an ambiguous notion such as the above, do let us
try to recognize all the possibilities. Perhaps Eliezers horizontal axis
is a timeline, on which he was pointing out that Rand lived in a time
when things generally sucked. Today we all ("you are here") are
almost to the time when things limp, and in the future we will have
stuff that works.
Then this becomes a somewhat obtuse affirmation of Randian
notions, since she lived in unenlightened times. Certainly things
sucked then compared to now and things limp now compared to
how things will soar with eagles in the foreseeable. He did label
it promenently THE ARROW OF TIME.
Even if we carry worrysome suspicions that they were actually
intended otherwise, do let us display some of that good old
dynamic optimism and interpret the ambiguous comments
of our compatriots in the most benign sense.
spike (still feeling a bit singed) {8^D
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