RE: What's Important to Discuss (was FRUITLESS: duck me!

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 23:16:50 MST


Robert writes

> Are we not rehashing things that have already been dealt
> with in much greater depth?

Well, Samantha wrote something quite similar in
http://www.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians/0211/17161.html
on November 13, which you must have missed.

I have several questions for you.

1. Why don't you instead rehash things that have not
    already been dealt with in much greater depth?

2. Or even hash things of greater importance?

3. Or even ignore discussions in which you don't want to
    participate?

Indeed, Samantha wrote, two links later,

> Wouldn't it be a lot more interesting though to first work on
> the myriad problems of how to do uploads? Or how we effectively
> combine and augment our intelligence to achieve some of our goals?

which at least shows some effort to confront what a number see as
a problem of what to talk about. As for me, like I said,

> > I want to internalize the truths about duplicates and
> > selves, as I want to internalize mathematical and historical
> > truths. Right now, I'm not totally decided about some
> > issues involving anticipation (e.g., in the Clock/Torture
> > experiment or quite similar thought experiments).

Lee



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