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