From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 19:09:13 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>Minor rant mode on.
>
>The purpose of this message is to get some of you folks
>TO ENGAGE YOUR JUSTIFICATION FILTER BEFORE YOU ENGAGE YOUR FINGERS.
>
I respectfully beg to disagree with Robert's rant.
I accept that the Extropians list contains a lot of stuff that has nothing
to do with Max's principles, however I would argue that this is among
its greatest strengths, not a weakness at all. We all know there is a
lot of noise on extropians that really doesn't belong there, however
I have found it a welcoming list, that has many esoteric interests,
scientific, political, technological, etc.
Do let us consider the alternative. Be quick on the delete key.
Tolerate the esoterica. Keep the extropians list as one that
opens its arms wide, and collects much.
>>[evolution] grant [Robert] the serenity to accept the things I can not change,
>>courage to change the one I can
>>and the wisdom to know that one is me
>>
>
>Minor rant mode off.
>
>Robert
>
>P.S. I plead guilty to having consumed an excessive amount of list
>bandwidth on the topics of MBrains and SETI in the past and can
>only attribute it to a personal need to avoid more serious topics
>that had cost me a great deal personally. For that I apologize.
>
Dont apologize! The MBrain stuff was absolutely brilliant, and think of it,
Robert: where else besides extropians would we ever have heard of that
notion, or for that matter, how else could we have found you?
The Mars people would not be interested. They are far too focussed on
Mars, and will shout down any post that doesn't specifically contain the
word Mars and a lot of ideas on how to get there.
>It would have been better if I had solicited in advance a group
>of people interested in those topics.
>
But how?
Let extropians be general. If a really specialized topic comes up that
a few people focus upon, but most do not care, then go ahead and
start a subgroup. In the mean time, post away, and let us all be
tolerant and quick on the trigger finger poised over the delete key.
spike
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