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I agree with Prof. Moglen that defining aims would help narrow our focus to manageable problems. | | | The third signal may be a further instrument of perspective and calibration. I suspect there are some substantial differences in what people have in mind (more or less consciously) and range of what's out there, currently and in plausible prospectivity. I wonder to what extent people think there's an important division of opinion between: | |
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> | • We live on Earth in a broadly recognizable way, approaching ideals of goodness, fairness, and sustainability, and | | | • We expand infinitely in capability and knowledge, conquering scarcity and death on our way to complete freedom. | |
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< | I might attribute the first to Tharaud and more of the second to Cerriere. Views like these may underlie/contribute to our perceptions/orientations/approaches, some like Galileo and Jesus from Galilee, variably focused/oriented though plausibly consistent. I wonder if Galileo Galilei and Galilee is design-intended, perhaps with humor/sense, with respect to this kind of question of sun/Son centrality/orientation? Also, triangulation/generational through line of one's life and good for son/children, sun/Son/son. Is it useful to think about? Sprinkle in jokes lightly, like what's for lunch? Microcosm, macrocosm, my current circumstance, the present, short, medium, long-term future/goals, content and facility, is-ought wheel, I'm hydrated, got to clean my kitchen, like part Roomba. Going to church today, it's All Saints' Day, a holy day of obligation. ... currently reading Paterson by William Carlos Williams, after seeing a flick I enjoyed called Paterson ... | >
> | I might attribute the first to Tharaud and more of the second to Cerriere. Views like these may underlie/contribute to our perceptions/orientations/approaches, some like Galileo and Jesus from Galilee, variably focused/oriented though plausibly consistent. I wonder if Galileo Galilei and Galilee is design-intended, perhaps with humor/sense, with respect to this kind of question of sun/Son centrality/orientation? Also, triangulation/generational through line of one's life and good for son/children, sun/Son/son. Is it useful to think about? Sprinkle in jokes lightly, like what's for lunch? Microcosm, macrocosm, my current circumstance, the present, short, medium, long-term future/goals, content and facility, is-ought wheel. I'm hydrated, got to clean my kitchen. Like part Roomba. Going to church today, it's All Saints' Day, a holy day of obligation. ... currently reading Paterson by William Carlos Williams, after seeing a flick I enjoyed called Paterson ... | | |
-- GregOrr - 09 Apr 2009
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