... This seems like a rather closed-minded view. Fatalism can be a considerably more than "grade school." Consider time as a whole, as you might if you were...
flecken@...
Mar 4, 1999 8:20 pm
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... <<SNIP>> I've sent Dave an HTML copy without all the ad stuff. If anyone else would like a copy let me know, but I suggest you wait until I hear back from...
Jack O'Donnell
jackodonnell@xxxx.xxxx
Mar 4, 1999 2:36 am
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... http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1067/c00r4.html I'd very much like to read your paper before I make a contribution to this discussion, however gave up...
Dave Hall
davehall@xxx.xxx.xxxx
Mar 3, 1999 11:57 pm
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... I agree with this statement and have set forth my opinion athttp://www.erols.com/jonwill/heaven.htm Cheers, Jon...
jonwill
jonwill@...
Mar 3, 1999 1:52 pm
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here are the addresses to sites the explain my personal philosophy http://surf.to/deras http://surf.to/breatharian my personal ethos and priority is to figure...
Derasflynn@xxx.xxx
Mar 2, 1999 11:33 pm
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In a message dated 3/1/99 11:25:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, visionaries@onelist.com writes: << Vision implies thinking, and thinking is a commodity in short...
TrevB111@xxx.xxx
Mar 2, 1999 8:41 pm
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My own knowlege is limited on this subject, so I feel perfectly free to make an ass of myself. I am having a difficult time reconciling the concepts of...
Lee Warner
lwarner11@xxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 2, 1999 1:53 am
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Interestingly enough, the next release of Pentiums III, 800MHZ, will put them into a supercomputer category and so will trigger corresponding export...
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha1@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 23, 1999 4:03 pm
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... The problem is two-fold, I think. First, I think you're right, Sasha, that many people who are successful in business enterprise are NOT long-term ...
GBurch1@xxx.xxx
Feb 21, 1999 2:33 pm
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... OK ... Perhaps I should have said "assertions." ... Concur again on the verbiage, "resources" is a better choice. ... Yes, these are additional attributes...
Jack O'Donnell
jackodonnell@xxxx.xxxx
Feb 17, 1999 5:10 am
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... Please do not mistake the semantic blobs that I offer for starting discussion for my opinion on the subject. You have no idea what my suppositions are. ......
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Feb 17, 1999 12:27 am
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... The problem is in your suppositions that (1) there exists a "free market" and (2) an economy rewards the "greatest useful contributions." A free market...
Jack O'Donnell
jackodonnell@xxxx.xxxx
Feb 16, 1999 3:12 pm
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Heiner Benking
benking@xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx
Feb 16, 1999 2:38 pm
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Sasha wrote, ... Well, if you think of it as a problem, then it seems you've assumed that the world ought to pay visionaries as much as...
J. R. Molloy
jr@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 15, 1999 11:57 pm
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A free-market economy supposedly rewards people for the greatest useful contributions to the society. So theoretically, it would make sense to look for the...
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Feb 15, 1999 11:11 pm
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... This group is pursuing the genius angle http://www.webscope.com/project_mind/project_mind.html ... I am trying to put a list together of current...
jonwill
jonwill@xxxxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 3:45 pm
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... A successful vision makes a successful visionary. The social order, far from promoting vision, often suppresses it. "The nail that sticks up, gets hammered...
J. R. Molloy
jr@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 2:06 am
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What do you think makes a successful visionary? History is full of examples when geniuses died without recognition, or were recognized too late. I am not...
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha1@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 1:00 am
12
I to work in the research group of Marvin Minsky who is known as a founder of AI as a discipline, and we often discuss in the group, why AI efforts declined so...
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha1@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 1, 1999 12:43 am
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I am mostly interested in learning about recent progress in true artificial intelligence research. By "true AI", I mean the kind of work that Hofstadter does,...
watermalon@xxxxxx.xx....
Jan 30, 1999 2:45 pm
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... I agree that proper handling of knowledge is the top priority for a better world. ... A true Utopia is the ability of each person to live in their own...
jonwill
jonwill@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 1999 6:15 pm
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to endorse this group you mention after a brief scan, but from their mission purpose, I fail to see the dangers you...
James
james@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 1999 4:40 pm
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In a message dated 99-01-09 19:52:32 EST, norm@... (Norman K. ... That sounds like a pretty broad generalization, to the extent I can tell what ...
GBurch1@xxx.xxx
Jan 10, 1999 3:23 am
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I'm very skeptical about all these future technological utopias. I think on balance they do a lot more harm than good. These aren't visionaries, they're...
Norman K. McPhail
norm@xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 1999 12:51 am
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... I just revisited their page. While I agree that these problems would be nice to get rid of, their approach seems typical of mainstream "futurism": clean...
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha@xxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 1999 12:26 am
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... Another example is the simple idea that cooperation and coordination of effort by all religions, nonprofit, and governmental charitable programs could ...
jonwill
jonwill@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 8, 1999 2:06 pm
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As much as I love science and its verifiable insights, I agree that there are other types of useful visions and activities. For example, the idea that the...
Alexander 'Sasha' Chi...
sasha1@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 8, 1999 4:18 am
3
Hi Patrick, You wrote, ... values based on love,compassion and wisdom i think we have to view him differently to others.Buddhist teachings also give us an...
Zenarchy
jr@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 7, 1999 4:53 pm
2
Hi, I am Jonathan Lee from Singapore. Although I am not practicing Buddhism, I am very incline to Buddah teaching because of family up bring. I agree with...
JL
leelt@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Jan 7, 1999 4:11 pm
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Hello everybody, My name is Patrick i am a lecturer at the University of Leeds in the UK.My interests are psychology and sociology with a specific interest in...