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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Back in the mists of time (early-mid 90s) I was a
subscriber to this list; i vaguely recall some very intersting discussion.
I was a moderately frequent contributor to the email conversations, briefly
hosted the ExI-Essay FTP archive, wrote a book review (I believe) for an issue
of Extropy, produced the artwork for the cover of an issue of Extropy, was sort
of a copy editor/formatter for the Extro 1 conference proceedings, and wrote a
couple essays for that old essay list. Then a Bad Thing happened to me and
I drifted out of sight, out of memory.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My primary interest has always been AI (I was a PhD
student in AI back then), and I recently was woken up from a temporary slumber
when I read about the specs of the upcoming PS3 gaming machine -- in terms of
raw flops, the standard projections for processing power (if not storage or
bandwidth) got a kick in the butt by the gaming industry the last few years, and
it might almost be time to start paying attention again to AI
again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, I have resubscribed to the list. I'm
glad to see some old faces still around (Max, Hal, Amara, Robin, etc), sad to
see a few who are not (Nick Szabo, Tom Morrow, and I understand that Sasha
Chislenko passed away, what a pity), and a few names I don't see that I don't
miss much :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a few materials from the time that the Bad
Thing happened to me -- alas all I was able to find is a program from the Extro
2 conference, a hardcopy of a paper titled "Human Life Extension 1995 - The
State Of The Art" by Chris Heward, and a floppy with a paper titled "A History
of Extropic Thought: Parallel Conceptual Development of Technicism and Humanism"
by Reilly Jones. If any of this material is valuable to the Extropy
Institute I'll be happy to send it to you. I see that much material from
those early years seems to be lost.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>derek</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>whose qualia, lights in a mirror reflected and
re-reflected, shine bright</FONT></DIV>
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