From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 07:51:05 MDT
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Robin Hanson
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:00 AM
>This thread seems to have bogged down into a largely fruitless
discussion
of what the word "want" should mean, and a potentially fruitful but slow
discussion of whether it is good (or right) to give people what they
want
or what they say they want. Let me try a different approach and ask:
what
are the prospects for ending, or at least greatly reducing, hypocrisy?
Simple really; give people exactly what they ask for everytime
with absolutely no interpolation on ur part. Eventually people's
language (requests) will mirror exactly their desires, no more,
no less.
The same goes for vice versa; correct ur own language (requests)
so that they more closely mirror what you are satisfied with.
If necessary, invent new words.
I hope this answers ur question (provides what u want); if it
does not, please rephrase ur request to more accurately reflect
what u want.
Q.E.D :)
omard-out
HAHAHAHAHAA - now if that wasn't irony at its finest :P :)
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