RE: The Extinction Challenge

O'Regan, Emlyn (Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:49:34 +1000

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> From: Alex Future Bokov[SMTP:alexboko@umich.edu]
> Reply To: extropians@extropy.com
> Sent: Friday, 30 July 1999 6:03
> To: 'extropians@extropy.com'
> Subject: RE: The Extinction Challenge
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> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Billy Brown wrote:
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> > Alex Future Bokov [SMTP:alexboko@umich.edu] wrote:
> > > I got one: they all become post modernists and start to question
> > > traditional values... like the assumption that their perceptions at
> least
> > > approximate some sort of shared reality ...or the value of progress
> ...or
> > > eventually, the will to live.
> > >
> > > ...or does that violate the "they can't all make the same stupid
> mistake"
> > > rule?
> >
> > Yes, I think we'd have to say that it does. After all, you and I
> > aren't falling for it. :-)
>
> I was lucky. I managed to survive the memetic blight by questioning
> postmodernism iself. Fight fire with fire, I say.
>
Did you then question that position, and this one, and so on?

(This brain is not responding. Do you wish to end the task, or wait for it to resume?)

Emlyn, I prefer mental deadlock to infinite loops, less wear & tear on the neurons.