From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 18:14:14 MST
> (Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@aeiveos.com>):
>
> Ok, I'm going to bring up a topic and may get thrown
> back into the dust for doing so but here goes.
> Can anyone currently subscribed to the ExI list cite
> an actual example where due to the list discussion they
> "changed" their mind?
I pretty much always toed the LP party line about "privacy"
and never thought much about it until I encountered discussions
here about Brin's book and other work along those lines.
It wasn't so much a matter of changing my opinions, but of
being induced to think more carefully about something I hadn't
before, and winding up coming to conclusions I hadn't expected.
That's the only one I can pinpoint specifically to this list,
but I can certainly remember other things I once believed that
I no longer do: I once advocated gobs of government spending for
research, for example. I was once a pacifist. I'm now starting
to re-think some of my more radical stances about capitalism
based on Friedman's recent work on irrational behavior and
evolutionary psychology.
Minds that can't change are broken.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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