On 2006-Sep 10, at 09:23hrs AM, Tony Smith wrote: > On 2006-Sep 09, at 20:51hrs PM, Tony Smith wrote: > >> Did you read the article at >> http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED.htm ? It explains the point in more >> detail for which the game is an illustration. If you have read it, >> then we have something to discuss. If not, it probably doesn't make >> sense that I re-phrase his arguments... >> >> I think that acting on a base rule "more than the others" may have >> brought an evolutionary advantage during a phase in our > development -- >> especially when individual "fitness" driven evolution was important >> --, but it seems to me that this is not a base rule that optimizes >> very well anything that is of importance in our current > phase. We, as >> a species, may be at a point where it is important to know the >> difference between "as much as possible" >> and "more than the others". >> >> ^ It is time for the species to split into two branches. One branch >> will be those who are still controlled by instincts programmed >> genetically from aeons (1) ago, Examples of this are tribalism, >> xenophobia, last event emphasis, alpha/beta pack behaviour, and >> over-breeding strategies. The other branch will consist of man/ >> machine hybrids which value intellect and reason as highly > as emotion >> and physical prowess. >> AGSC ^ > > > Jocks & nerds, eh? That'll work well. > > Go read 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley. Divides humans > in 5 categories, alpha to epsilon. (well, they grew the > humans to spec, but the point still holds). > > For the alphas who became a PITA, they got shipped off out of the way. > > Orwell was wrong. Huxley got it right. Everyone happy! > Praise Ford and pass the soma! > > Tony > > (I love getting spam selling soma. Amuses me no end.) > > ^I pondered the wisdom of retorting to Tony's latest comments > and concluded that it would be wise to take a pass.....then > my dinosaur brain took over: For the record i have read > "Brave New World" and "1984" and neither is a relevant > response to my "species split" comments. Many times I have > wondered if my words are converted before they reach Tony and > then Tony's words are converted before they reach me. Some > kind of function f > (words) where > f(AGSCwords) = mangled inverse f(mangled) = incomprehensible > I am not much of a cryptologist so I admit I am bewildered. AGSC ^ Not so hard to figure out, it's just binary. You want to divide the world in two. Nice people on one side, not so nice people on the other. ^ As I said before, Tony, you do not read the same words I write. An amazing phenomena that I will have to simply accept. All of the stuff you write below has nothing to do with my thought processes. Go figure. I guess that stuff matches someone else you have met. Not me. And you are so sure you know my mind. again .... Amazing. AGSC ^ Such simplistic divisions are not unknown, you have the jock / nerd division I mentioned, as well as evil / good, conservative / liberal (vice versa?), aristocracy / peasantry, Sith / Jedi, Eloi / Morlock, master / slave, priest / worshiper, Red / Blue, Rebublican / Democrat, upper / lower class, Tutsi / Hutu etc. > From your comment, I assume the 'nice people' are the nerds, the > thinker and tinkerers of society. The 'not nice' are the rest, they mow lawns, watch football and dig ditches while the 'nice' people invent MP3 players and HTML widgets. In Huxleys world, the masses are controlled by making them happy, unlike the Orwellian boot crushing the face. The Alphas (nerds) went to the feelies and thought a lot about how nice they were. Lower classes (jocks) were bred to perform the menial tasks. 1984 had the proles, of course you're not one of those... Look around, how many years 'After Ford' is it? I didn't appreciate 'Brave New World' when I first read it. It was only years later it really made me laugh. Oh, and Tutsi / Hutu? Google Rwanda. Tony -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AGSC Augustus Gustavius Salvatore Calabrese 4337 Raleigh Street Denver, CO 720 222 1309 303 908 7716 cell adding " spam2006 " bypasses my spam blocker. Please place in the text or at the END of the subject line. ( i am hard to reach by phone ) All ideas, text, drawings and audio , that are originated by me, and included with this signature text are to be deemed to be released to the public domain as of the date of this communication . AGSC ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist