From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 18:54:07 MDT
>>(Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>):
>>
>>I don't get it. I really, really don't get it.
>>
>Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> Join the club. Although I must admit, I /do/ understand why /some/
> people see me as comabtive/offensive/whatever: people who aren't
> used to detailed, rigorous, intellectual combat often misinterpret
> it as personal...
Jeez, I go on a little vacation, come back to WW4.
I did have a little epiphany while away, that goes
along with Lees comment (Daniel Crocker that is).
I was pondering why the extro-list is so combative,
whereas at the extroschmoozes everyone gets along
like long lost brothers. I realized the reason is
that we are basically decent people who take on
tough problems. The motorcycle gang I was with last
week doesn't do that. Extropians discuss those
thorny human problems that no one can solve.
The most notorious extropian fighters I have met
in the flesh I have and found to be decent
respectable types, and fun to be around.
Let us not stop taking on tough problems just
because we cannot solve them. spike
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