[extropy-chat] Promote transhumanist ideas by joining StumbleUpon.com!

[Michael Anissimov]

Hello fellow transhumanists,

I've been watching the web statistics of a few key organizations and 
have found that we get a *lot* of hits from this service called 
StumbleUpon.com.  It's a toolbar that surfers use to be directed towards 
random websites based on their interests and ratings from fellow users 
of the software.  Like Orkut, transhumanist-oriented ideas seem to be 
disproportionately popular among users of this service.  Let's improve 
our situation by joining this service, navigating to our favorite 
websites, rating them with a "thumbs-up", and leaving a positive 
comment, shall we?  It will take about 10 minutes of your time.  The 
potential improvement in traffic could be enormous even if only 10% of 
the people reading this email step up to the plate.

Download the software here:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Here are some of the sites I gave positive ratings and comments (listed 
in random order):

http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/
http://www.asimovlaws.com/
http://www.extropy.org/
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael
http://www.transhumanism.org/
http://www.imminst.org/
http://www.singinst.org/
http://www.betterhumans.com/

Now that I have everyone's attention, I also wanted to mention that, 
regardless of what I said in my recent AHA2004 conference report, I'm 
not an uptight transhumanist Puritan.  I don't advocate the outlawing of 
drinking, gambling, or prostition, but it makes me feel negative when 
people's long-term happiness is damaged as a result of these short-term 
pleasures.  (As it sometimes is.)  I had a great time in Vegas overall, 
but must admit that I've been to many better cities.  (Vancouver and New 
Haven come to mind.) 

Thanks,

-- 
Michael Anissimov                           http://www.singinst.org/
Advocacy Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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