From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 19:39:54 MST
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> 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.
Lee, could you cite which of Brin's works you are thinking
about? I'm not familiar with them all and am having problems
placing the reference. [Thanks].
> 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.
Ah-ha -- so this (in my speak) isn't a case of "changing ones mind"
it is a case of "transforming the believer". You did not adopt
a different set of ideas -- you became a person in which the
old ideas could not survive (i.e. you lost the base of support
for those memes).
> Minds that can't change are broken.
*Unless* they just happen to be right.
R.
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