RE: [GKES] figuring out just what everyone is here is doing to bring on a better world

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 21:53:23 MDT

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    ---> nanowave
    > >Ok, now this is less useful too general, I think.
    >
    > Hi reason and thanks for your feedback. I might have made an effort to
    > determine what the GKES header on this thread meant before posting, but
    > instead I simply 'winged-it' based on the remainder of the subject line.
    >
    > >One can assume that we're all interested in grassroots transhumanism, for
    > example.
    >
    > I might have been more specific there. I meant 'meatspace grassroots
    > transhumanism'. In other words, I am interested in
    > transhumanism-for-dummies-like memes and vectors specifically enabling the
    > general non to semi-technical population (or the 'proles' as spike might
    > say) in my immediate geographical region (i.e. my salon client base) to
    > favorably grasp, participate in, and profit from the project of
    > transhumanism.
    >
    > >What, specifically, are you actually *doing* in the sense of organizing,
    > running,
    > >creating?
    >
    > Pretty much that.

    Well, yes, but what *is* it that you are organizing/running/creating? e.g.
    some people here manage transhumanist websites, others run advocacy groups,
    others are scientists in appropriate fields with interesting projects, and
    so forth.

    > >I'd like to have some sort of lower-bound cut-off off on project
    > >effort/size on this list in order to keep it useful.
    >
    > Surely you meant to type "this thread" not "this list". This
    > list is for
    > the discussion of things relevant to transhumanists and transhumanism. If
    > just one other list member finds a part of what I write to be
    > interesting or
    > relevant to transhumanism, then what I have written is *useful* by
    > definition. And up to eight times a day I might add.

    Ah, I was referring to the text list (under construction by Dan Fabulich) of
    definitive, identifiable, transhumanist-relevant larger projects that people
    on this mailing list are working on.

    Reason
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