Hi all, This is just a reminder that our initial organizational/ get-to-know-each-other meeting will be TONIGHT at 7PM The place is a Japanese restaurant in...
Dammit - Thanks for the reminder, but I'm supposed to work until 9PM tonight. I may or may not risk my job by coming. I'm going to quit anyway. ... ...
Hi All, I can't attend today's meeting (busy moving to a new house and getting the first one ready for tenants). For now, I would like to find out if there are...
Hello all, For those who couldn't make it: We had our zero'th meeting tonight, an informal dinner discussion with a goal of firming up the organization of the...
Hi all, The purpose of this email is to announce our first official DC Future Salon meeting, which will be *** Wednesday October 5, at 7:30 PM *** The speaker...
Hi all, I have heard back from the Montgomery County bureaucrats, and we are confirmed at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Services Center for *** Wednesday October 5,...
Hello ASF Future Salon members: We are seeking volunteers to sit at the ASF table at Robonexus (http://www.robonexus.com/) from 10am - 5pm, Friday, October 7 -...
Just a quick note on this to leave you for the weekend... If there is anybody interested in traveling to Robonexus in San Jose from out of town to help us out,...
This is just a reminder about our first official DC Future Salon meeting, which will be TONIGHT *** Wednesday October 5, at 7:30 PM *** The speaker will be...
Thanks, Ben. I look forward seeing everyone again and talking about these unresolved questions surrounding the concept of life and death. I'll also have a 10...
Ben, Sorry, can't make this one. See you next time. Phil Nelson On Oct 5, 2005, at 10:02 AM, bgoertzel wrote: This is just a reminder about our first official...
An event that we thought might be of interest to all of you: Life Extension Conference Nov. 5, 2005 in Atlanta, GA Meet Aubrey de Grey and sixteen other life...
Hi all, The first meeting of the DC Future Salon occurred last night as scheduled and was a success in my view. Around 10 folks showed up to -- hear Bruce...
Agreed, Ben... in this first meeting, I was impressed by the collaborative discussion which engaged the topic of immortality from multiple fronts. I was left...
Bruce wrote: *** I was left thinking, as suggested by you, Jeff, and others, that the illusion of personal identity will fade as we augment and merge... so...
And there is, of course, a familiar and acute irony in observing that -- while these (along with the scientific puzzles of human biology, uploading and so...
... As far as I can tell, "merging" is a completely taboo subject on the Internet. (either physically or mentally). (You can find 10,000x as much stuff on...
Hi all, This is just an advance reminder that our next DC Future Salon meeting is Wed. Nov. 2, 7:30 PM, the same place as last time (directions are here:...
Hi Ben, These topics for the next two meetings look great. re: living in a simulation, Nick Bostrom & Robin Hanson have some ides on the topic as well: ...
I don't think I am going to attend this meeting on the simulation argument, because I would probably be argumentative. I consider this topic to be one of...
... Since when is that a bad thing? Are we aiming for echo-chamber-only gatherings? I consider this ... I consider this suggestion to be rather contrary to...