[ExI] MAKE THE LIST GREAT AGAIN

[Giulio Prisco]

I thought of a new subject line for this thread that bears some kind
of affinity to the discussion that spawned it...

The problem with the list is not too much politics, but too little of
everything else.

When I joined in the nineties this list was my main source of food for
thought: Extropy, space, nanotech, the then emerging internet, life
extension, AI, uploading... And a lot of politics too...

Most of us are still still around and writing about the same things,
only not here. The list has been mostly retired for years, apart from
occasional bursts of activity. I am still here for emotional
attachment, and I guess many others can say the same.

I write and share a lot of stuff, but these days posting to Facebook
or Reddit is so much faster than posting to a mailing list, and
reaches many more people. Mailing lists are still the most
decentralized option, but alas not as good as contemporary centralized
alternatives.

Should we try to restart the fire here? Or perhaps move to a Discourse
(http://www.discourse.org/) board (like the Boing Boing forum)? Or
some other platform? Or a subreddit? Note that Discourse and Reddit
itself are mostly open source, someone would need to do the IT setup
(and of course maintenance and admin) work.

Thoughts?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:26 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf
> Of Adrian Tymes
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>>…Spike: we are now losing members because the political talk went past the
>> election, and there is now no end in sight.
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> I request an immediate, complete ban on discussion of the US political
> system …
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> No ifs, ands, or buts.  No excuses.  Stop it now, man.
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> Thy wish be granted, my son.
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> Please my fellow ExI-chat members, we see we have lost the guy I consider
> the most valuable player, posts always filled with good stuff, insights,
> calculations.  We know it has been traumatic, and we know we will pay for
> what we have done, but it is done now.  Let it go, get back to the reason
> this list is here: technology!  Science!  Transhumanism!  A positive outlook
> on the future (if you can manage it (I can (can you?  (thought so
> (good!)))))
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> If anyone is tempted to squawk about some headline, I do urge we form a
> subgroup on that specific topic or an ExI-politics group.  We have done that
> in the past; in fact some of the really most interesting discussions I saw
> over the years were to be found in a subgroup, such as the one we formed
> when the transparency/openness debate was going on here and Natasha asked us
> to take it outside.  We did.  Unfortunately a lot of interesting stuff, such
> as Julian Assange’s comments, are not in the archives and I didn’t keep any
> of it.  There were about a dozen guys in that, the usual suspects which
> included me most of the time, Robert Bradbury who has died, I think Lee
> Corbin was in there, died recently, Mike Lorrey has his own group, Eugen
> Leitl who wrote some really interesting stuff, a big transparency opponent,
> has gone to DarkNet last I heard.  There might be no one left from those
> days, about 2000, damn.
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> We had other specialized subgroups.  If someone wants to set up a Reddit, I
> will join it, not as moderator.
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> I request please, let us stop the US politics before we lose more highly
> valued contributors.  I hope Anders will come back eventually or will check
> in once something big happens.
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> As friendly neighborhood omnipotent dictatorial ExI-chat moderator, I ask
> please: no more.  Let it go.
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> Thanks!
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> spike
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