From: Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 17:59:00 MST
On Mar 10, 11:57pm, "den Otter" wrote:
> It has probably something to do with waxing fat under the current regime
> and such. People with good jobs (and especially scientists) make lousy
> revolutionaries.
People make lousy revolutionaries. And lousy revolutions.
> In theory transhumanists could make a great underground organization;
> hardly any group packs more raw mental power than this one. Fortunately
I wouldn't care to defend that statement in debate. I'm not saying people
here are dumb, but I don't see how selection for a few subspecies of
technophilia has produced an unsurpassedly high quantity of intellect.
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friends like Thomas than with lovers like Nick." -- _Tam Lin_
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