Re: My Fears

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 11:53:34 MDT

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    On 6/2/2003, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
    >My biggest concern right now is that, in general, most Extropians lack the
    >scientific expertise or understanding to support the evaluations and
    >predictions we make. I fear that we are more like salespeople and
    >advertisers who make unfounded claims for their product with no support. ...

    I've been away from this list for a while, so this leads me to ask if there
    *are* any non-trivial central claims/evaluations/predictions that "we make"?
    Sure each person with a post may make some particular claim, but is there
    much in common behind these disparate claims?

    Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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