[ExI] Is the ExI email list slowly dying out? And if so, what can be done to reverse such an outcome?

[Giulio Prisco]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 8:25 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> I love the ExI email list, having read it on and off for over two decades, so I want to address this issue. I realize the list has it's periodic ups and downs, which includes golden ages (sort of like a civilization, come to think of it). But I still feel like it is in a long-term decline, compared to the past. I just don't want to see it die a decade or so from now, with barely a whimper.
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> Should we have an informal recruiting drive to find fresh transhumanist blood? Perhaps that would help.
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> Anyway, I look forward to reading everyone's thoughts on the subject... And hey, I love you guys!

The 90s were an optimistic decade, you felt in the air that good
things could happen and were about to happen. Space, bio/nanotech, the
then young internet, virtual reality, new political systems... Now we
live in a pessimistic and defeatist culture, and this shows here and
elsewhere. Recovering the optimistic outlook of the early Extropians
list is, I believe, what today's list (and world) need.

Or perhaps it is just that we are all getting old and grumpy.