RE: Committee on Un-Extropian Activities (Was: Openness to Unpopular Ideas)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 01:51:40 MDT


Eliezer wrote

> ...it's a running gag.
>
> So perhaps a small band of Extropians should get together and
> begin pointing out posts that are stupid, daring the social consequences,
> since after all it's just a mailing list, and otherwise the quality will
> keep going down. This group would be called the "Committee on
> Un-Extropian Activities" by way of self-conscious irony

:-) I'd approve. But you know what would happen.

> and to remind
> ourselves how dangerous such an endeavor can be... not that we really need
> reminding of the danger per se, since it's blindingly obvious to any
> Extropian; more that we acknowledge the danger and openly declare, as a
> statement criticizable by smart but wrong critics, that we think we really
> are that good.

While perusing the SL4 archives for some of the months earlier
in the year, I had to admit that your taste and mine coincided
on some "Bzzzt" posts not really being SL4, and that I thought
that such bluntness on your part worked out well. But I would
suppose that it put a strain on you after a while.

Lee



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