RE: Threadwatching

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 12:20:15 MDT

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    Anders Sandberg wrote,
    > > Anders Sandberg wrote,
    > > > <http://akira.nada.kth.se/~asa/Extropians/extropians.html>
    > >
    > > Woo-hoo! I'm a big orange circle near the center!
    > > (But I don't know what this means....)
    >
    > That means you are a big poster - plenty of posts about the "central"
    > issues many others also participate in. If you look in the archives
    > (http://akira.nada.kth.se/~asa/Extropians/Archive/) you will see that
    > this is true of you most of the time.

    Wow, thanks! But is this really just a polite way of saying that I'm a
    self-important, opinionated argument-seeking blatherer who just can't stay
    out of conversations or let them drop?

    > We are probably recharging in order to really hate each other in the
    > upcoming flames about whether Columbia could have been saved from
    > Saddam's agricultural leftist plot if the astronauts had been armed. :-)

    Affirmative, faulty, declined, done. (Is this more efficient than my
    afore-mentioned style?)

    > I have a lot of ideas of extensions of the application (some of them due
    > to good ideas Robert mailed me). One thing I really would like to do is
    > some Bayesian text analysis to detect the politeness level.

    Most scintillating and excellent idea, your Jupiter-brainess. (Does this
    give me points? Can I redeem them for some sushi?)

    --
    Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP
    <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
    


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