Re: Nextropians: Where R They Now?

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Date: Tue Jun 15 1999 - 11:17:03 MDT


Heywood Floyd wrote:

> Ok, call me a coward, an irreputable conspiracy monger, but jesus
> christ people - Lighten Up! Thanks Spike for seeing the humor! :-)
>
> BTW, Michael I was emulating your style 'before' you run it through
> your spell checker!
>
> If I'm wrong about such a secret network, then explain to me why these
> most thoughtful and intelligent people are mysteriously quite these
> days. Are we to believe they have all given up discussing
> transhumanist values openly on the internet?

I want to learn to be quite. Is it some meditation based thing? ;)

I thought the nextropians were all Steve Jobs groupies....

> Max More
> Ralph Merkle
> E. Shaun Russell
> Eric Watt Forste
> Vernor Vinge
> Hans Moravec
> Tom Morrow
> Mark Crosby
> Mark Mills
> Kieth Henson
> Gregory Stock
> John K Clark
> Kathryn Aegis
> Kennita Watson
> Mitchell Porter
> Peter C. McCluskey
> Reilly Jones
> Russell Whitaker
> Sarah Marr
> Perry E. Metzger
>
> Where are these people? Eat your heart out! :-)

Presumably, and based on my own discussion with some of them, quite busy BEING
extropic, and working toward extropic goals, rather than just talking about it.

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