Re: Beamer

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 19:43:26 MST


At 04:44 PM 12/17/01 -0500, Eliezer wrote:

>you might be able to arrange for nights of
>the new moon to be graced by a glowing symbol where the circle of
>blackness used to be. Only nights of the new moon, of course; otherwise
>it wouldn't look right. I think the symbol should be a Nike swoosh (so
>funding won't be a problem). Once a month, all the people in oppressed
>countries could look up into the night, and know that no matter how long
>it takes, no matter how much it costs, someday a McDonalds will rise above
>the rubble of the palaces of tyrants.

The wonderfully strange thing about this list is that if Mike Lorrey or
John Clark had posted that, you'd know he meant it with every true
capitalist fiber of his being; if I'd posted it, you'd have no doubt I was
being cruelly sardonic. Because Eliezer is responsible, *I just can't
tell*... Damn those inscrutable mutant supermen!

Damien Broderick



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