From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 14:07:02 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Samantha writes
>
>
>>Lee Corbin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Reading between the lines, one sees pure Extropianism
>>>at work. There is a huge universe out there (in this
>>>case the Natural Numbers), and unlike most mathematicians,
>>>Spike is not content with narrowly focusing on The Next
>>>Natural Number in the typical anal way mathematicians
>>>usually work. He is quite happy to skip vast, vast
>>>numbers of integers in the quest for the best almost
>>>perfect odd number he can find, never looking back.
>>>
>>This betrays a singular lack of understanding of how
>>mathematicians work!
>>
>
> Oh put a sock on it. You can't let one little crack slip
> by, can you? Lighten up, for chrissake.
>
If you choose to write inaccurate gobbledygook you wish to have
ignored then I humbly suggest that it is you who should "put a
sock on it".
>
>>>This is a model for the way that we want to explode
>>>into the future. Another metaphor: we should colonize
>>>every star in the galaxy at about the same time, none
>>>of this "picking only the closest and going one by one".
>>>
>>What on earth (or off it) for?
>>
>
> To bring life to unliving matter. To allow people to live
> who otherwise never would.
>
Assuming of course that we don't screw with stars that already
have life around them and leave room for that life to also grow,
I have no great problem here. Except that I find it odd that I
am accused of "bubris" when I speak of tuning our economic
system more realistically and appropriately to what we wish to
accomplish yet you believe it is only natural and write that you
speak about colonizing every star in the galaxy and even having
entire galaxies obey your whim. Something is just a tad out of
kilter here. Don't you think?
- samantha
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:14:40 MST