Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-12 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Brent Meeker writes: If we discovered some million year old civilization today I think wonder at its achievements, however paltry, would far outweigh dismay at its wickedness, however extreme. I'm not sure what the significance of this observation is. I don't think it's true. My

Re: Jason + Stathis

2007-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 11-févr.-07, à 18:50, Brent Meeker a écrit : Bruno Marchal wrote: ... Personally I believe that the mailing list would be formidably enhanced if we could use a simple pen for simple drawing. Just a pen. I mostly reason with simple images. And this is even more true about the

Re: Jason + Stathis

2007-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 11-févr.-07, à 20:18, Jason Resch a écrit : On 2/11/07, Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason, I am not against a wiki for the list, but I think it could lead to some difficulties. I have already asked more than one time what are people's main assumptions, without much

Re: Jason + Stathis

2007-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 12-févr.-07, à 03:04, Hal Ruhl a écrit : Hi Jason: I want to thank you for you work re a centralized place to keep the various essences of the list and their variations. It would indeed be nice if Jason succeed in helping you to put your ideas in some stable forms. I guess you

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Hal, Le 12-févr.-07, à 03:37, Hal Ruhl a écrit : Hi Bruno: I was using some of the main components of my model to indicate that it allows white rabbits of all degree. Any succession of states is allowed. If the presence of SAS in certain successions requires a certain family of

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-12 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: Brent Meeker writes: If we discovered some million year old civilization today I think wonder at its achievements, however paltry, would far outweigh dismay at its wickedness, however extreme. I'm not sure what the significance of

Re: Jason + Stathis

2007-02-12 Thread Wei Dai
On Feb 13, 3:28 am, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need an emailer that understands HTML to look at an attached jpeg, like the one I attach to this. :-) On the avoid-l mailing list the rule is to keep attachements under 500kb. Perhaps Wei Dai would like to adopt a

Re: Jason + Stathis

2007-02-12 Thread Russell Standish
Jason doesn't currently allow file uploads. I tried to upload a copy of my book's cover art, but had to link externally instead. Up to him whether he turns this feature on or not, I guess... Cheers On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:56:41AM +0800, Wei Dai wrote: On Feb 13, 3:28 am, Brent Meeker

Re: Jason + Stathis

2007-02-12 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:57:07PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: Perhaps a stable Everything list FAQ would be more relevant (than an unstable wiki). May I suggest you to take a look on Michael Clive Price Everett FAQ which is very good. The articles of an everything-list FAQ would have to