Scott Aaronson It just seems like it would be. my only real exposure with David Deutsche is when he was a member of an online mailing list i made and ran in the early to mid 1990s on children’s rights called Y-RIGHTS. I had a rule – it seems absurd in retrospect – to try to keep your writing level at around an eighth grade level so as not to exclude anybody who was on the list. oddly it worked except for two people : David Deutsch and the woman who founded TCS – Taking Children Seriously. They worked together on it for a few years — i assumed they were good friends too. Anyway, they were talking high level libertarian stuff in a group that ranged from middle schoolers to professors and UNICEF and yet they would not listen to me. This was around 1993 i was infringing on their rights i think? So i showed them where they could start up their own list – which was harder back then — no www yet — and once they got set up, i removed them from Y-RIGHTS as i said i would. We stayed amicable. i joined their list too and it was ok. a few years later David Deutsch wrote a book and i was proud of the guy. i didn’t mind that they wanted to do things their way but i knew there was room for them to do so elsewhere and set them up to. i thought i was reasonable but i was like 21 yrs old so who knows.

Scott Aaronson It just seems like it would be.

my only real exposure with David Deutsche is when he was a member of an online mailing list i made and ran in the early to mid 1990s on children’s rights called Y-RIGHTS.

I had a rule – it seems absurd in retrospect – to try to keep your writing level at around an eighth grade level so as not to exclude anybody who was on the list.

oddly it worked except for two people : David Deutsch and the woman who founded TCS – Taking Children Seriously. They worked together on it for a few years — i assumed they were good friends too.

Anyway, they were talking high level libertarian stuff in a group that ranged from middle schoolers to professors and UNICEF and yet they would not listen to me. This was around 1993

i was infringing on their rights i think?

So i showed them where they could start up their own list – which was harder back then — no www yet — and once they got set up, i removed them from Y-RIGHTS as i said i would.

We stayed amicable. i joined their list too and it was ok.

a few years later David Deutsch wrote a book and i was proud of the guy.

i didn’t mind that they wanted to do things their way but i knew there was room for them to do so elsewhere and set them up to. i thought i was reasonable but i was like 21 yrs old so who knows.

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