From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 20:45:03 MST
Personally I enjoy duck-me-like discussions for the same reason that I
enjoy logic puzzles. I've always enjoyed logic puzzles. If nothing else
they are entertainment for me. Certainly they're a better use of my free
time than watching mindless TV shows designed to please the lowest
common denominators in society. (But then, on the other hand, The
Soprano's really have my attention these days. I can hardly believe Tony
whacked Ralphie like that, even if Ralphie really was a bastard who
deserved it. That scene the week before last where Christopher dumped
Raphie's head into a bag was really over the top.)
I agree with my friend and nemesis Lee Corbin here about the importance
of internalizing "the truths about duplicates and selves."
-gts
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org] On Behalf Of Lee Corbin
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:17 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: What's Important to Discuss (was FRUITLESS: duck me!
>
>
> 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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