From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 21:33:35 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>Well, Spike, you know that math is just one more entirely ficticious
>construct of patriarchal imperialist capitalist western civilization
>
But Mike, I *like* patriarchal imperialist capitalist western civilization.
>that is used entirely for purposes of repressing women, minorities,
>indigenous people,
>
But Mike, I *like* women, minorities and indigenous people.
> and the 'artistic' with boxes, labels, rules, and
>limits.
>
But Mike, I *am* an artist. Of sorts. A musician is an artist.
>Your evil Python (aha, one more phallic symbol, a snake)
>program always finds 'good' numbers,
>
Aha! But most of the work I actually did in microsloth excel,
which we already know to be evil and repressive to women,
men, minorities, majorities, artists and carbon based lifeforms
in general.
Python is pretty cool tho.
>
>By my personal, politically correct interpretation of the Extropian
>Principles, both GIMPS and your own math work are un-extropian......
>
What??? GIMPS unextropian????? NOOO WAAAAAAY!
Parallel computing is way cool, extropian to the max (had to
throw that in there) and may somehow even contribute to the
singularity some day (altho I confess I do not understand how.)
GIMPS code is free, open source, developed entirely by
volunteers and is some of the most efficient and well debugged
code you will see anywhere. The extro-GIMPS team was
doing pretty well for a while there, until Folding@home came
along and started gobbling up the CPU cycles.
>Mike
>(who saved up his April 1st points)
>
Hey I saved mine too. I figured I better cool it after that
gag I pulled off on 4-1-2000. spike
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