From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Dec 21 2002 - 13:00:12 MST
> 1984 should be required reading for all extropians.
>
> spike
Yes! But don't forget Animal Farm too. "All of us
are pathetic, but some of us are more pathetic than
others."
> What I am proposing is a Newspeak-like subset
> of English that is specially designed for talking
> to our computers.
Well, we already abbreviate our speech when talking
to children and babies, to the sick and elderly, and
even---as was just pointed out by someone---to non-
extropians.
So we will just naturally learn how to talk to yet
another kind of entity whose understanding is in
some ways inferior to our own.
Lee
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