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thekohser
Just a running thread to discover interesting things said by Jimbo, or about Jimbo, from the 1990's.

From the talk.philosophy.misc mailing list:
QUOTE
In article <CAKMAx....@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jwa...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(Jimmy -Jimbo- Wales) writes:

One of the first rules of authentic
discussion and debate is the passionate commitment to leave aside the
"ad hominem" fallacy.

> In article <TORKEL.93Jul22192...@anhur.sics.se> tor...@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
> This fine sentiment might be more convincing, did you not yourself have
> an unfortunate penchant for quickly resorting to the crudest abuse in
> off-line communication.
Detective
If anyone else had put a superfluous apostrophe in a thread title, we'd assume ignorance or carelessness. In Greg's case, it's obviously a test to see who spots it first! biggrin.gif
thekohser
From the former Pam Wales (Jimbo's first wife, a co-worker of his at a grocery store):

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“To him, altruism was evil,” remembers Pam, who says that Wales therefore discouraged her from pursuing a nursing degree when they were married. “His whole ‘Mr. Save the World’ is so contrary to what he said every day for seven years.”
thekohser
QUOTE(Detective @ Mon 10th October 2011, 10:57am) *

If anyone else had put a superfluous apostrophe in a thread title, we'd assume ignorance or carelessness. In Greg's case, it's obviously a test to see who spots it first! biggrin.gif

Just following the standard of The New York Times, up until Merrill Perlman came along.
tarantino
Here's Jimmy in 2001 on a mailing list that discusses transhumanism and the Singularity.

I also have an archive of his blog from 2002-2003. He later deleted it when he reinvented his public persona. His current blog only goes back to October 2004.
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