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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:39:02 -0400
From:      Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why did evolution fail?
Message-ID:  <20020912083902.585184e1.yid@softhome.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D8084D8.29DEE733@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:13:12 -0700
Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Joshua Lee wrote:
> > > > > > Yeah, and the concept of one hand clapping is perfectly
> > > > > > rational to an irrationalist.  So what?
> > > > > It's perfectly rational to the rationalist, as well.  It is a
> > > > > proof of the incompleteness theorem.
> > > > Interesting... could you elaborate?
> > > Not without starting another thread... 8=O.
> > I'd actually welcome a new thread, this thread is getting quite
> > boring.
> 
> Yes, it is; but the philosophical ramifications of the incompleteness
> theorem are what started the current thread.

For some reason I don't remember that, maybe it was when the thread was in -hackers or something?

> Well, that and Dave Hayes pype, poking it with a stick any time
> it looked to be settling down, just for the sheer joy Dave
> gets from being a luddite and making people waste effort

I'm not sure if his opinion on the moderation of mailing lists is a
luddite one. I think he's not against the technology of it as much as he
is against the censoring of trolls in general, whether manual or
automatic.

> that could be better spent on things he opposes.  Luckily,
> this thread has not taken a lot of attention or time to
> type, from my perspective; since it's started, I've also
> written about 13,000 lines of code.

What project, may I ask?

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