From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 09 1999 - 21:56:34 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Besides, we should remember that the whole message is somewhat tounge
> in cheek. For our real goals, see the principles/transhumanist
> declaration/faq etc
Exactly. What we want is for people to get intrigued by the T-Shirt;
then they look up Extropian on Alta Vista (first match the Principles
3.0), or Yahoo (Carder-Russell's home page; you can find extropy from
here but it ain't easy), or extropian.com ("Coming soon", no link to
extropy.com or anywhere).
We should try to optimize 'Net searches so that they hit on extropy.com,
which, IMHO, has the best combination of prominence and resources;
there's an immediate link to EWF's FAQ, which IMHO is the best
introduction, and a link to the Principles, the official definition.
However it's missing a link to Anders's Transhumanist Resources, which
is the third thing to read.
I advise these courses of action:
1. Register extropy.com with Yahoo.
2. Link extropian.com to extropy.com until something's there.
3. On extropy.com, near the top, put in a line saying: "New to
Extropy? Read <a=FAQ>the FAQ</a>, <a=principles>the Principles</a>, and
<a=anders>Transhumanist Resources</a>."
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