From: Arona Ndiaye (arona1@em8s.com)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 15:35:43 MDT
With all due respect Chris, should I need to 'tear down' a Chevy 350 engine
I would spend time & sweat on learning anything I can about engines (even if
it takes me 3 years) before asking for help... or I'd ask someone else to do
it. I wouldn't expect someone to dumb it down for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cooper" <coop666@earthlink.net>
To: <sl4@sysopmind.com>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Si definition of Friendliess
> >When I do not understand something, I go to http://www.google.com and it
> finds related links for me. Why should it not find those same links for
> everyone ? The Singularity is nothing complex. How do you dumb down
> something which is not dumd-down-able ?<
>
> Arona,
> I don't want to fight about something that is just a difference in
outlook.
> However, I will at least point out that not everyone in the world has
access to
> the internet just yet.
>
> Just because something is easily grasped by your mind, don't assume that
> everyone else will have no problem. For instance, I can tear down and
re-build
> a Chevy 350 engine quite easily, why can't you? That doen't mean that
you're
> stupid, it just means that you haven't yet acquired a specialized area of
> knowledge and skill. Just because some folks (most, probably) might need
to
> take baby steps to the Singularity, don't condemn then outright.
>
> I do agree with you that if the information is available, and if someone
is
> interested in learning it, then they have no excuse not to learn. In the
case
> of the Singularity, however, the vast majority of people out there have
> probably never even heard of such a thing. They have to at least be aware
of
> the Singularity before they can type the words into a search engine. I
myself
> stumbled into this while exploring the subject of memes on the 'net. I'm
very
> pleased to have discovered this information, but it was a happy accident.
Not
> everyone can be so lucky.
>
> COOP
>
>
>
>
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