From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 22:25:36 MDT
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
>
>>Can anyone currently subscribed to the ExI list cite
>>an actual example where due to the list discussion they
>>"changed" their mind?
>
>
> Ok, in the face of a number of testimonials that people
> have "changed" their minds I am forced to concede
> that this is indeed possible.
What? You changed your mind?
> The question *then*
> becomes whether this is a character trait that
> is more common on the ExI list...
> and less common in the general population?...
No I would say probably not. It is more that the
subject matter we generally discuss cannot fit on
a bumper sticker. Much of what the general population
does is not to carefully reason out any given issue,
but rather to choose a package deal, a well-thought-out
memeset, prepackaged, already fully developed by
others.
Extropians change their minds because much of what
we deal with has no prepackaged memesets available
for consumption. I have yet to see bumper stickers
which deal with teleporting, singularity, nanotech,
physics, cryonics, intellectual property issues,
any of the really wicked cool stuff. We have no
mental crutches available to us.
spike
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