[ExI] The entropy of Extropy-Chat

Spencer Campbell lacertilian at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 00:43:11 UTC 2010


<x at extropica.org>:
> And I ask again, "What the hell happened to halt the growth of the
> Extropy discussion list?"
>
> I remember that discussion on this list used to be surprising,
> enlightening, challenging.  Now the predominate pattern appears to be
> participants ignoring that which they don't understand, railing
> against that which offends their personal sensibilities, and
> persisting in tooting their own horn.

A better question, to which that one is an important corollary, might
be: "How can we make the Extropy discussion list better?"

I haven't been here long enough to have any idea of how things used to
be, so that question is virtually the only contribution I am qualified
to make. Personally, I joined on the hope that I could talk to a large
number of witheringly intelligent people about esoteric-yet-promising
ideas. Specifically, with an eye toward refining those ideas and
perhaps (in some cases) gaining support to implement them.

Predictably, perhaps, the first and only idea I presented fell flat on
its face. Total silence. So, I've since changed my stance toward the
list from "opportunistic" to "hedonistic". At this rate, I will
probably phase you guys out eventually as my life fills up with more
rewarding ventures. It's a tragedy of pragmatism.



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