Silk is Calde!

Gwern Branwen · 05 Nov 2008, 19:00 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:00:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) Silk is Calde!
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Son of Witz  wrote:
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>>I agree, but I think there are also indications in there that he's
>>annoyed with certain aspects of the Democratic Party. Like their
>>policy on abortion.
>>
>>-Matt
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>
> QUITE a lot to be annoyed with in BOTH parties, IMHO.

Some of his interviews do indicate that, yes. For example, he has an
interesting rant on how drilling for oil is an incredible & colossal
waste of resources because oil is 'for so much more than just
burning'; and he also expresses considerable disappointment in the
anemic space program.

(I have all these interview pages photocopied from _Shadows of the New
Sun_, and I keep meaning to systematically go through them and improve
Wikipedia articles using them but they're in a real mess and I can't
find anything in them.)

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gwern

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