[EM] Comment on MJ discussion

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at lavabit.com
Sun Jan 6 11:46:30 PST 2013


On 01/06/2013 01:54 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:

> We live in a technological society. Among some people, there's a
> tendency to worship science. Anything that;s more complex is felt to
> likely be better. That's MJ's mystique.
>
> It's just complicated enough that it's easy to obfuscate (for oneself)
> what's going on, and whether it's an improvement. Given the need to
> worship technology, and the consequent love for complexity, it's easy
> to be tempted to deceive oneself that MJ must be doing something
> good--even if one can't say what it is.

There you go with the "motivations of the advocate" again. Didn't you 
agree to hold off on that kind of speculation, back in our thread about 
Condorcet and clones?

I'm not going to bother replying to the rest if you can't hold yourself 
to that standard.




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