From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 18 06:07:48 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1DuVLP-0003f1-69 for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:07:39 -0700 Received: from snowdon.metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18] helo=metacarta.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1DuVLM-0003er-0s for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:07:39 -0700 Received: from localhost (jackson.metacarta.com [65.77.47.6]) by metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A115180F6 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:07:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from metacarta.com ([65.77.47.18]) by localhost (jackson.metacarta.com [65.77.47.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02719-03 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [65.77.47.138] (baxter.metacarta.com [65.77.47.138]) by metacarta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6082E5180ED for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42DBA993.4060805@ropine.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:07:31 -0400 From: Seth Gordon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040530) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Transhumanism References: <001601c58a0f$51da7120$cd7fbd43@cybert5042e076> In-Reply-To: <001601c58a0f$51da7120$cd7fbd43@cybert5042e076> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at metacarta.com X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10281 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: sethg@ropine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Ryan Keppel wrote: > Are there any others who see the link to transhumanism? A > smarter-than-human intelligence would learn lojban quickly, and see its > benefits immediately. How do you know? A smarter-than-human intelligence would be much better than humans at resolving ambiguous grammatical forms from context. Perhaps transhumans would rather rely on this skill--and even adapt their language to depend on this skill more heavily--than use a language with a formally unambiguous grammar. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.