[extropy-chat] ANNOUNCE: Extropy Institute's Future

[Robert Bradbury]

On 5/4/06, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do a Google search on henson jupiter brain
>
> You only have 61,000 entries to fix.


Well I only get 58,600 so we are already getting there!  At this rate we
should be done by tomorrow.  :-;

Actually, if you limit it to Henson "Jupiter Brain" you only get 25 and some
of those, e.g. [1] are correcting the association.

Some of the other references are by people we know like Anders or Bruce
Klein who could presumably be pursuaded to make corrections to the pages
which have the errors.

It is worth noting that while Keith is not the person responsible for
"Jupiter Brain", he does appear to be the culprit(?) behind the "Far Edge
Party" (aka "Far Side Party") if I believe Chapter 9 "Laissez le Bon Temps
Rouler" in "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition".

Robert

1. Anders for example gets it wrong here:
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/j.html
I would bet that entry is the original source of the confusion.  He does
however manage to correct himself in Aug of '99 here:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sTXrp055x0QJ:lists.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/2078.html+Henson+%22Jupiter+Brain%22&hl=en<http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sTXrp055x0QJ:lists.extropy.org/exi-lists/extropians.3Q99/2078.html+Henson+%2522Jupiter+Brain%2522&hl=en>
As Anders points out in that note the idea of planet-sized brains may have
originated with Stapledon.
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