Re: Ex Underground

Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:59:00 -0800 (PST)


On Mar 10, 11:57pm, "den Otter" wrote:

> It has probably something to do with waxing fat under the current regime
> and such. People with good jobs (and especially scientists) make lousy
> revolutionaries.

People make lousy revolutionaries. And lousy revolutions.

> In theory transhumanists could make a great underground organization;
> hardly any group packs more raw mental power than this one. Fortunately

I wouldn't care to defend that statement in debate. I'm not saying people
here are dumb, but I don't see how selection for a few subspecies of
technophilia has produced an unsurpassedly high quantity of intellect.

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