Michael Nielsen writes:
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> handled right, give those women greater opportunity to increase their
> extropy.
If "increasing your extropy" means the same as Doing the Right Thing(tm), ok. I just hope we all realize the specialization of human genders becomes an atavism in a drastically changed environment of post/trans/whateverhumanity. Even if the things material mutate into degenerated mindstuff, I hope at least the virtual realm will be inhabited by many memetically diverse species, radiating from us-founders.
> > (why, I certainly do see a pattern here, as well to
> > the homosexual males' being statistically relevantly overpresented),
>
> On what basis do you draw that conclusion? In fact, could you explain
> what you mean, there; what does "relevantly overpresented" mean? Do you
> mean "relatively over-represented"?
Yup, sorry. My English is notoriously sloppy. On which basis? Just anecdotal evidence. Of course we could do a poll to put a finger on it. Of course there is multiple bias of being a bunch of english-speaking self-selected frustration-tolerant online neophiles with too much free time on our hands, but still. See, the cryonics folks are weird, too.
> > and is this of any (more) relevance to the list than the permanent
> > gun(ho)/anti-gun debate?
>
> Well, of course it's relevant to the list. Discrimination on the
As a libertarian I have nothing against weaponry, it's just the amount of discussion bandwidth allotted to it that's obviously out of proportions. YMMV.
> basis of gender or sexuality (or anything else) which results in people
> being "kept down" _unfairly_ certainly minimizes their extropy. I'll
Of course there are also very vocal lobbys using every opportunity to promote their case. Dunno what it does to their mana/karma/extropy.
> agree that the gun debate is rather beside-the-point, though.
Yup. Let's tag the subject with GUNS, or move it off-list, altogether. Er. Did I already told you about that shiny new AK-47 {scream fading off into pink noise}
ciao,
'gene
> Michael Nielsen