From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Wed Mar 31 1999 - 18:17:54 MST
>>Michael Lorrey:
<RentAClue elided>
>Anders Sandberg:
<Niceness elided>
>Towards a nicer transhumanism!
Niceness pays. So does not rewarding attention squanderers. _My_ serotonin
levels certainly could be better at times.
This is why people keep asking for a "Deep End"/restricted list (It's not
elitism (at least not purely), it's recognition that attention is the most
limited resource).
Now that there is supposed to be one, I'll soon be deciding whether to join
EI in order to participate in it.
And I hope _it'll_ have high standards of politeness *and* self-study, e.g.
every participant will know to look a word up, will know how to use
AltaVista, Dogpile or at least Yahoo, and will expect to be chided or even
dumped for obvious laziness.
And I'll save _this_ list for when I'm feeling particularly extrosattva
(which word I believe I coined, unless someone has priority). I encourage
others to do the same.
MMB
"[We] mistook a clear view for a short distance." -- Ted Nelson
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