Re: Psychadelic and other Garbage on Extropians

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:30:58 -0700 (PDT)


Chris Hibbert writes:
>I've been using a filter on extropians for some time. Only people who
>seem to be making useful contributions (in my not-so-humble opinion)
>get through.

As Andrea noted, a big negative of this approach is that you don't
know what others have read or who you are talking to when you write.
If people were to publicly post their filters, and some stats were
published on who is read, then maybe this negative would be mitigated.

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/