From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 06:41:44 MDT
Robert:
>I think Alex may be right. Its gotten cloudy & rainy again in Seattle
>and I haven't had enough sun yet.
"Again" ?
Robert, most of this summer in this part of Europe has seen very
little blue sky and sun.
I think Anders is on the other side of that 3 month off-course
pressure system, and so he is probably more cheery than the rest of us
grumps.
Anders:
>I don't know how to set the correct balance, but I have a hunch that
>we can self-regulate it. If Robert screams "DO SOMETHING!" when we get
>to talky, I scream "THINK ABOUT YOUR IDEOLOGY!" when we get too
>wrapped up in other ideologies or trivia, "GET REAL!" when we debate
>angels and pinheads too much (and others contribute their versions),
>we get a crude but potentially efficient way of keeping ourselves on
>track in a distributed manner. As long as the readers and posters
>remember that the aim here is to achieve a positive transhuman future
>and try to achieve that partially through this list such a system
>might work.
I like it.
Amara
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