Re: Finding useful functions- part 1

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:17:35 GMT

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:25:30 +0000, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>In article <4184e532.15732286@netnews.att.net>, Lester Zick
><lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> writes
>>On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:57:59 +0100, David Longley
>><David@longley.demon.co.uk> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>>
>>>In article <10o81pseu1mn26@news20.forteinc.com>, Stargazer
>>><fuckoff@spammers.com> writes
>>>>Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
>>>>> Stargazer wrote:
>>
>>[. . .]
>>
>>>One consequence is that the cognoscenti generally just make polite
>>>excuses and leave folk such as yourself to your nonsense.
>>
>>So, what are we to conclude, David, that that you're not one of the
>>cognoscenti or that you don't know how to make polite excuses?
>>
>>Regards - Lester
>
>Not quite Lester, I'm a super-being, and I'm benevolently playing with
>you ;-)

Yeah, David, you've really got the benevolent part down pat.

>You won't know it (cf. intensional opacity) but there are lots of us
>super-beings about. Some of us created political correctness, others
>"cognitive science", others (a little less imaginative) had a go at even
>more eccentric products (<http://www.phallic.org/onanism-fashion/> in an
>effort to keep you and the rest of your onanistic finger dribbling ilk
>from more serious forms of abuse.

Which didn't work either.

>We're not users but anti-abusers (educators). Consider it a subtle
>selection, or management procedure.

Apparently so subtle it doesn't work.

>cf. "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" (1971), "Manufacturing Consent" (1992),
>"The Bell Curve" 1994, or ..well...., I'll let you work that out for
>yourself (but do look up Nisbett & Wilson 1977 sometime, and remind
>Patty to do the same <g>

Why?

Regards - Lester

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