Small meta-comment: it's very annoying to see your comments consistently downvoted (even when you're not playing your shtick). > Oh, it probably is. Someone ha

Small meta-comment: it's very annoying to see your comments consistently downvoted (even when you're not playing your shtick). > Oh, it probably is. Someone has to propose radical ideas or moderate changes never happen. Radicalism is the role I've had to take on these issues, for a variety of reasons not worth getting into. So, I appreciate your line of reasoning here, but I'm not sure if it's the most effective one. In fact, I think your approach is getting you the exact opposite result of what you want. The thing is, playing a radical is extremely hard, hard especially when you aren't even that genuinely radical. Stallman plays a radical superbly, and I think that really is because he genuinely believes everything he says. I fear that when you say radical things, they can be served as arsenal for the other side, who coopts your arguments as reductio ad absurdum devices for opposite goals. > Whoa. Can you say who? I've never heard of this. That is... disgusting and horrifying. http://web.archive.org/web/20080621111652/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12676363/cover_story_americas_most_lovable_pimp/print http://web.archive.org/web/20080621111652/http://www.rolling... Perhaps the greatest pity is we, and the VC's, including Sam Altman, celebrate him.