Re: extropian nudist colony

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 22:01:08 MST

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    Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    >
    > And *who* is going to fess up to giving me all those negative
    > points.... I want to leave some instructions for the MBrain
    > upload operators! Remember what Khan said.
    >
    > Robert

    YOU gave you the negative points Robert. Fortunately your
    whuffie soars with the eagles. If my theory is correct,
    a negative karma point comes from opening a thread that
    no one responds to. All the regular idea-hampsters will
    have a huge negative second karma number. In that sense
    a large negative second karma number is a good thing,
    since a bunch of bad ideas implies a bunch of good
    ones, by pure chance. Shows you are thinking.

    I have always used extropians as a sounding board, an
    idea repository, a little like the way an engineer
    uses a notebook, writing down ideas for safekeeping
    even if half baked, allowing the world to run with
    the ball if there is any ball to run with. Any time
    one uses the list this way, one should get a huge
    negative karma, as many of the ideas will simply
    baffle everyone.

    Part of my karma theory has already been disproven. I
    have found examples where a poster has jillions of "views"
    in the archives and still has a low or zero first
    number in the karma.

    Please someone, what the heck is karma? I mean the
    traditional meaning, is it something like good luck?
    Or more like charisma? Or what?

    spike



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