[ExI] lists going quiet, was: RE: list test

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:42:55PM +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:

> I think the darknet explanation ("virtual Galt's Gulch scenario"?)
> is unlikely, since so few people use darknets at present. They

There is no other option to darknets.

> suffer exactly from the critical mass problem I described: unless a
> group moves en masse into it, they will have a tendency to (1) have
> fewer participants, (2) it is harder to find other or new
> participants. So I would predict that at present if the elite is
> using darknets, they are not getting that much good discussion going
> (outside some small groups - having some burning shared interest,
> typically illegal or subversive, can be a good motivator). In fact,
> if you want to ignite a big online discussion you do not want to put
> it on a darknet, since you want to broadcast it as widely as
> possible. Nyms are more important than darknets, IMHO.

Nyms are no longer possible on the wider Internet.
When I said that there are no other options to darknets,
I wasn't kidding.