From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 18:14:32 MDT
On 2002.05.28, natashavita@earthlink.net <natashavita@earthlink.net> wrote:
> It seems that most extropians prefer quality to quantity.
My comment is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but if your statement were
true, then why the need to live forever?
> If you may know of another list that is full of spanking smart people
> discussing and debating the world?s problems and how to build a
> positive future, (with an ardent sense of humor to boot), then tell us
> about it. Otherwise, we are just playing a numbers game where quality
> may be sipping through the cracks.
The other list is full of incredibly smart people discussing and
debating the world's problems as they relate to software development.
Maybe of much less interest to Extropians, but of very significant
interest to me. The focus of the conversation on the mailing list
is all about how to build a positive future and nurture relationships
while building high quality software at the same time. Building
software is or at least should be about people, not about technology.
On 2002.05.28, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
> Dossy, this *is* the high-traffic, unmoderated, group chatter occasionally
> dragged back to the subject, all-priorities-ok mailing list. This is the
> list where people are told to go if they go off-topic on one of the more
> restrictive transhumanist lists. If this list isn't high-traffic enough for
> you, then I want to borrow your brain implants.
:-)
My point isn't that "I want more traffic!" it's "I don't see why
the current level of traffic is a problem."
In the Extropian spirit of continual self-improvement and learning
something new every day: learn a new mail client that has features
your current one lacks to help manage large mailing list volume.
(The "you" in the last sentence is the plural you, not you
specifically, Eliezer.)
I think that the ideas presented on this list, for me, come across
clearer when expressed in a more relaxed conversational tone, rather
than as a more refined expositional piece. Conversational language
in email conveys a lot -- like body language in person -- that gets
elided when a person takes effort to present an idea in a more
formal fashion. I'm on this list because I'm interested in
trans_humans_ ... I want to get to know and understand the people
on this list, how they feel about the world around them and so on.
Whatever. I'll go back to lurking again, but at least I feel I've
said my piece since nobody else has said it for me ...
-- Dossy
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Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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