From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 06:00:55 MST
Brett Paatsch wrote:
> Lee Corbin writes:
>>
>>1. People pretending to be an authority on what
>> other people's (or nation's) motives are
>>2. Posters complaining that we should "harmonize"
>> instead of argue---that we should try to "work
>> together" instead of score points.
>
> If you want to start a thread about your personal peeves
> go ahead, or folk it out of the original, but please don't
> presume *everyone* who looks at a subject header with
> "List Dynamics" wants to hear *whatever* you have to say
> on *any* topic just because *your* saying it.
I'm interested in what Lee Corbin has to say, not because I have a unique
interest in the particular quarks making up his physical system, but
because quarks organized in a Lee Corbinish way seem to generate some of
the more interesting and logical statements appearing on the Extropians
list. (Incidentally, Lee, in what way is arguing, done correctly, *not* a
form of harmonization?)
I've encountered this statement before - "It's just *you* saying X" - and
I wonder where X is supposed to come from if no one is allowed to say it.
Every statement is made by a speaker. What does pointing this out
contribute?
> PS: If anyone thinks *I* am out of line here please advise
> me offlist. - Thank you.
Er, no. You posted onlist, I'm replying onlist.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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