From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 14:54:00 MST
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> > Back to the original question, I have been thinking about Sasha's
> > writings. Many had great ideas that still have not been developed
> > thoroughly or been extended in the light of new information.
Some of his ideas have been implemented in the past in various internet
startups he worked for. These were essentially ideas in the realm of
intelligent agents, reputation brokering, etc. which are now embedded
in the reality of the internet that most of us use them every day
without stopping and noticing how they have been rendered into code and
web pages.
>
> I did manage in 1988 to write down a succinct list of 15 or so
> fundamental beliefs I had which I called "Lee Corbin's Manifesto".
> (I should dig them up, but I don't think that there is anything
> on that list that would be especially provocative to regular
> readers of this list, or to extropians who make much effort to
> keep themselves up to speed.) When I mentioned that I haven't
> had any new *fundamental* ideas for about the last 15 years, it
> was that list to which I was referring, and about which Eliezer
> mentioned that this was the saddest thing that he'd ever read
> on Extropians, or some similar words to that effect bemoaning
> that this was such a long time for one to go without having
> new ideas.
I frankly doubt that you've been so bereft of ideas. I have noticed
that some of my best ideas come to me either in my sleep or just as I
am going to sleep (I've called this 'Dream CAD' in a few posts in the
past). Remembering them, or conciously getting up to write them down
has been the main hindrance to doing anything with them. I had one such
the other day as I was falling asleep and got up and typed it into my
laptop....
I'll bet you are in a similar situation. I have heard of techniques to
train yourself to get up when you have a dream or idea in your sleep...
>
> The nice thing about such a format, however, is that it very
> *concisely* exhibits ideas. Can we essay such a numbered list
> of Sasha's ideas which could be then "developed or extended in
> the light of new information"? I stress that each item most
> desirably should be limited to exactly one sentence, if at all
> possible.
I recommend contacting Extropian Simon Levy to get in touch with his
ex-wife and his son, who currently have his writings that are not still
available on the web. Simon is not on this list, but I am sure that Max
or Natasha knows how to get in touch with him.
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