From: Aubrey de Grey (ag24@gen.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 12:41:47 MDT
Reason wrote:
> In the spirit of getting things done, here is the low-cost organizational
> solution to this particular problem:
>
> 1) Someone becomes Grand Keeper of Extropian Secrets. Democratic process and
> whatnot not really required; duties are not onerous. Should be someone
> responsible and reliable.
>
> 2) The GFES gets a mission statement/miniFAQ/resource list written. Two
> pages should do it. This is posted to the list once a month. I refer to you
> to the CR list at www.calorierestriction.org for a truly excellent example
> of this sort of thing. The purpose of this thing is a) to help the newcomers
> find context, b) to help the oldtimers remember the context.
>
> 3) The GFES finds out what people are doing. I mean *doing*. Like I run
> www.longevitymeme.org. There are at least twenty or so other transhumanist
> webmasters I know of who can be said to be *doing* things. Mike has the Free
> State Project, there are WTA cells all over the place, people organizing
> conferences, two or three nanotech advocacy groups, some of us are even
> figuring out the internals of the human body or building better rockets. I
> mean, there's a lot going on.
>
> The list of *doing* gets formalized and posted once a month. With contact
> information, brief project descriptions, and How To Help paragraphs. As it
> progresses and shows value, the GFES stops having to prod people, because
> they come to the GFES with their updates.
Sounds great to me. One great asset of such an initiative is that there
are many (such as myself) who are spearheading key aspects of the futurist
agenda but to whom reading high-bandwidth lists is a major time sink that
competes with our (presumably valuable) main occupation. Replying to
questions that are directed to me personally (and copied to a list if the
questioner chooses) is a much more efficient approach that I never shirk
from, and I bet numerous others in my position feel the same. Having my
name/website/activities on such a list would thus be a move in the right
direction from my point of view.
Aubrey de Grey
(who is curious what the word beginning with "F" that was replaced by
"Keeper" was...)
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