Re: POLL: Proto-Survey v.2

Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:11:40 -0700 (MST)

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At 07:45 PM 1/14/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Okay... Somebody tell me.
>What is it, exactly, that Extropian Art does? Why should I list it
>alongside cryonics, intelligence amplification, or the Singularity?
>
>Maybe I'm prejudiced; the only piece of Art I ever really liked was
>"Godel, Escher, Bach".

What's so amusing, Eliezer, is that you are so deeply into the idea of the
Singularity -- an idea straight out of a literary piece of art by Vernor Vinge.

>But maybe I'm prejudiced, or artistically numb, or a Neanderthal.

I didn't say it. :-)

Max

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