>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>
>You don't join the Extropy Institute to get all the valuable membership
>benefits, because you're right; there aren't any. You join ExI to help
>fund
>the revolution.
I never realized. Is that official ExI policy?
>It's just like sending money to CARE or the Red Cross or
>something,
In that case, wouldn't it be better not to call it "membership"?
Perhaps there could be some kind of slogan at the site, like: "Don't give
your contribution to CARE or the Red Cross -- give your contribution to us,
and help fund the revolution."
If this had been what it had said at the Extropy site, I would not have
complained that I don't get anything for my membership fee. Then again, I
would never have sent it in if that is what it had said at the Extropy site.
>the difference being that (a) your dollars accomplish around a
>hundred times as much; and (b) you get to put "Member, Extropy Institute"
>on
>your web page or signature line.
Stupid me -- I never thought to take advantage of that benefit while I
was a member, and now it is too late. Or is it? Who knows? It is probably
just as difficult to find out whether I am not a member as it was to receive
confirmation that I was a member. If people want to pay just for being
able to put "Member, Extropy Institute" in their signature line, they should
be warned that besides money, it also takes half a year of writing to
Extropy officials before they get to know whether they are members or not.
Ian
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