″..people refusing to contemplate the real values of the opposition as the opposition sees it...”
Popular news and punditry seems saturated with this refusal, to the point that I desire to characterize the media’s real values in a wholly unbecoming and unfairly generalized manner. It would be a nice evolution of society if we introduced a ‘rationality’ class into the public school curriculum. Or perhaps developed a ‘Bayes Scouts’ with merit badges.
Yeah, pipermail URLs seem to change once in a while for no obvious reason. (Bad design even if, say, messages are getting deleted; URLs should be permanent whenever possible.)
Here’s the message that link was probably referring to.
″..people refusing to contemplate the real values of the opposition as the opposition sees it...”
Popular news and punditry seems saturated with this refusal, to the point that I desire to characterize the media’s real values in a wholly unbecoming and unfairly generalized manner. It would be a nice evolution of society if we introduced a ‘rationality’ class into the public school curriculum. Or perhaps developed a ‘Bayes Scouts’ with merit badges.
haha—damn—you beat me to it: http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2008-March/042369.html
The link makes no sense—did it point somewhere else in 2008 for some reason?
Yeah, pipermail URLs seem to change once in a while for no obvious reason. (Bad design even if, say, messages are getting deleted; URLs should be permanent whenever possible.)
Here’s the message that link was probably referring to.