RE: GETTY Topics (Saturday 11/2/02 4:00 PM)

From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 17:05:10 MST

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From: Tiffany Kary

>As a first-time attendee to a West Coast meeting, and someone who is
working on an article about tranhumanism and psychology, can I also request
a topic? I'm curious about different approaches to technological change,
and specifically interested in what opinions are regarding Leon Kass' (head
of president's council on bioethics) theory of "The Wisdom of Repugnance." <

Hi Tiffany. I am glad that you will be at the Getty on Saturday. (Tiffany
is writing an article for "Psychology Today." She has interviewed several
of us for the piece.)

Your suggestions is timely for the negotiations topic. In order to deal
with Leon Kass and his committee, we need to consider how to negotiate
through the anti-biotechnology maze to advance public knowledge re positive
aspects of biotechnology.

Natasha

(A breif summary is available here:
http://criterion.uchicago.edu/issues/vi1/meaney.html)

Tiffany

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From: natashavita@earthlink.net [mailto:natashavita@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:37 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org; exi-la@extropy.org
Subject: GETTY: The Art if NEGOTIATION

This Saturday at the Getty Salon - 4:00 PM (or earlier), we will be
discussing the art of negotiation. We'll take a look at the strategy
designed by The Warschaw Group (whose principle recently spoke at the Women
in Technology meeting here in LA) and other means of dealing with
businesses and people to get what we want and close the deal. The caveat
here being that getting what we want is often based on a win-win scenario,
but learning the "Art of War" (Sun Tzu) is a pretty good idea as well.
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