From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 01:59:13 MST
Spike,
about psychologically adjusting to nudity in an extro crowd-
>Well, the anxiety is more with social interaction
>than just nudity I suppose. Extropians is a good
>example indeed. At extros 4 and 5, I found that most
>of my usual difficulties grokking humans instantly
>vanished. Here was a group with whom one could
>freely discuss mathematics, cryonics, uploading, any kind
>of raging technology, floating in compressed argon,
>injecting sedatives into a carotid artery, atheism,
>nanotechnology, the singularity, a bright future
>for transhumankind, all the really good stuff, without
>having to explain anything or get into any silly
>elementary arguments.
Then naturist setting would facilitate such an interaction.
We can be monkeys under the stars or the sun with
our toes in the sand!
It's not like this is something new, though, Spike. I suppose
you've not heard or read about the excursions and gatherings
of the early extropes?
>ps, if I were to ever participate in a naturist setting,
>it could only be at an *extropian* nudist resort.
>pps, but still there's that predominantly-male nature
>with extropians, so never mind. And thank evolution
>for the few female extropians that continue to bear
>with us.
I haven't lived in the Bay Area for a little while, but a large
number of the parties I went to there from mid1980s to mid1990s
with extro-type people had hot tubs, where usually bathing attire
was _not_ permitted. For men and women both (there _are_ some number
of women computer nerds, you know). Nudity was not a big deal then
and the smart people that I hung around with used that opportunity
to spendidly relax. The best storytelling I've heard from Keith Henson
about his nefarious life were while steaming under the stars in a
crowded hot tub, for example. Have extro people in the Bay Area
changed ? I suspect not...
-- ******************************************************************** Amara Graps, PhD email: amara@amara.com Computational Physics vita: ftp://ftp.amara.com/pub/resume.txt Multiplex Answers URL: http://www.amara.com/ ******************************************************************** "CALIFORNIA magazine, in an article on "The Man Who Invented Time Travel", even ran a photograph of me doing physics in the nude on Palomar Mountain. I was mortified---not by the photo, but by the totally outrageous claims that I had invented time machines and time travel." -- Kip Thorne
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