[ExI] wat is an extrocon was: RE: Why Tesla Can Program Its Cars to Break Road Safety Laws

[Will Steinberg]

Extrocon 2022 incoming?  I'm in the northeastern US.  Come hang, we can all
get dim sum

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Why Tesla Can Program Its Cars to Break Road Safety
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> So, what is an extrocon? Google doesn't know.
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> The extrocons were kinda like a Zoom meeting, except that the participants
> would physically transport their carcasses to a common geographical
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> Oh wait, retract all.  BillW I have grown accustomed to explaining to
> teenagers how things were in the olden days (defined as before they were
> born.)  For most of us here, enlightened ones all, we remember when a
> “meeting” required actual literal transportation, where people would do
> things such as meet face-to-unmasked face, and “shake hands” (another one
> of those odd (and currently ill-advised) social customs to which the young
> are not accustomed in our tragically contagious times.)  Billw, that’s why
> I treasure friends such as you and the others who remember how it was
> before 2019.  May you live at least as long as I do, and may that be a long
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> Those extrocons took place generally in the 90s up to about 2001 or so.
> Oh we had a blast.  It was so much fun, meeting in person the people whose
> writings I had read for years, listening to presentations by the
> illuminated ones, even being invited to make a pitch myself, which I used
> to urge people to write paper notes to Gina Nanogirl Miller and Keith
> Henson, no excuses do it now while I am standing here etc, for in their
> cases there was no alternative means of communication.  I haven’t heard
> from Gina in a long dang time.  Keith moved down to San Diego a few years
> ago and hasn’t been active much online for about the past coupla years I
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> Being upstanding extropians, they wrote the notes.  I collected them,
> packaged them up, posted them to the recipients.  We had a party at my home
> which has gone down in the folklore of my neighborhood, a story that I am a
> worshipper of some deity by the name of Dick Seacups where we prayed a kind
> of rosary known as hakosote (details cheerfully available on request (most
> cheerfully (they are some fun details.)))
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> Oh I learned so much.
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> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:09 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> >…how can you program your car to avoid dangerous neighborhoods?.... spike
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> Perhaps I should define the term dangerous in this context.  I live near
> San Jose.  A dangerous neighborhood is not one where you hear gunshots at
> night.  A dangerous neighborhood is one where you hear the clink clink
> clink of spent shells hit the pavement.
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