Damien Broderick wrote:
> Monads.
No. Rhymes with gonads, imagine the lame jokes.
> Spikesters.
Hey cool! I like it.
> ...smacks of cultism. It's peculiar....
But we like peculiar.
> Do geologists name each other `granitists' (admittedly, some of them are
> schists)?
Or schisters.
> Is Stephen Jay Gould a `punctuated equilibrian'?
Hey, its easier to say than equilibertarian, altho I prefer the longer
version in that case.
> Call yourselves Elians, and win a fine Cuban cigar!
The even shorter "Elis" is already taken by those who attended Yale.
> ...Damien Broderick...
Now see, Damien, if you had slanted The Spike more towards the
Singularitarianism, they could be called Damiens. {8^D Actually
we might want to reserve that as a unit of measure, such as one
Damien equals one human equivalent of machine intelligence. spike
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