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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-10-18 02:29, John Grigg via
extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Should we have an informal recruiting drive to find fresh
transhumanist blood? Perhaps that would help. <br>
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<div>Anyway, I look forward to reading everyone's thoughts on
the subject... And hey, I love you guys! <br>
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<p>As far as a recruiting drive, there are enough people out there
still using email lists that we could get fresh eyes in here. I
suppose the question is what this list has to offer to keep people
here. If I want to hear about communists infiltrating the
government, or hospitals defrauding the government by inflating
covid deaths, or predatory men claiming to be women to get into
restrooms, and the like (but nothing directed at the right, that's
politics and belongs on the other list), there are unnumbered
multitudes of places to get that. When I joined I didn't really
know anything, to contribute to the discussions, but they were
exciting and made we want to get more involved. I dropped off for
a while due to unrelated things going on. I come back and it's
this cycle where I want to get more involved, then the discussion
veers back into the same material I hear every day from my
neighbors and co-workers and I check out again for a few weeks. </p>
<p>That was too verbose, but the crux is that we can get new people
in, but when it comes to retention, what do we have to offer them
that it's worth sticking around? On the other hand, this is a data
set of one, so I could be entirely wrong! I am a cockeyed
optimist, or I would have followed Anders Sandberg out the door,
but here we are, and I do want to see the list succeed and a
little more information will probably do more harm than good.<br>
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