From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 10:39:27 MDT
"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> > What times are good for you? Spontaneous Order having failed to
> > materialize, it looks like I'm going to end up picking the times for
> > Extropian chats as well. Does *anyone* have something to say about what
> > times are good for them?
>
> Eliezer, I want a focus. Regular chat channels are entertaining energy sinks.
> I already use this list for that. [self-deprecating grin/grimace]
> Pointlessness has its point, as I and others have remarked, but I'd prefer
> something like the Nanoschmooze approach of at least having a nominal topic
> (this month's NS one relates to managing the hype-boom-bust WRT "nano" buzz.
> It might not be doable, but it's at least a topic. If we get a topic as well
> as a time, the odds go up that I'll schedule attendance, or know not to be
> bugged that I missed it.
Why don't *you* declare a topic for the next chat?
(Currently I'm considering trying to get together a Grand Convocation of
SL4, WTA-talk, and Extropians for the next month's gathering. I suppose I
could declare the topic to be "Lines of demarcation", currently the closest
thing to a politically controversial topic among transhumanists, and thereby
guarantee that everyone will show up for fear of being demarcated in their
absence. But that would be evil, right?)
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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