From: O'Regan, Emlyn (Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au)
Date: Tue Jun 29 1999 - 00:48:54 MDT
How about if your government decides that expressing anti-government
sentiment is illegal at some time in the near future? How's everyone on this
list going to rate?
Just about anything that you say could be illegal tomorrow; I think you're
probably better off saying what you believe, in the hope that you might
influence public opinion enough that policy comes to reflect your views.
Marijuana use might be a good example of this.
Making sure that it can't be proven that you sent the e-mail might also be a
good idea.
Emlyn (or is it?)
> ----------
> From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky[SMTP:sentience@pobox.com]
> Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 1999 14:47
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: WANTED: BVH Motion Capture Files
>
> Ken Meyering wrote:
> >
> > For some reason, I feel more tuned into gestures when I smoke
> > marijuana. I'd very much like to participate in a controlled study
> > where I get into the mnemonic aspects of gesture state changes,
> > timing, and there unconscious cueing effects.
>
> You know, regardless of the *current* state of Internet search
> technology used by the government, your employer, and your health
> insurance company, everything you post on the Internet *is* forever. I
> really don't expect it to be all *that* long before somebody can run
> automated searches like "Has Ken Meyering ever done anything illegal?"
> --
> sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://pobox.com/~sentience/tmol-faq/meaningoflife.html
> Running on BeOS Typing in Dvorak Programming with
> Patterns
> Voting for Libertarians Heading for Singularity There Is A Better Way
>
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