OK guys, this is not yet an official project, but I'm hoping that it will be and I'll be able to post a more refined thread in the projects forum. My goal in posting this thread is two-fold. First of all, I want this to be an initial central location so people can report back with their successes and issues with trying to implement this plan. Secondly, I'm looking for suggestions about how to improve on these ideas so that they can be made more effective.
I've already heard from brokenportal about past successes with this sort of strategy. I'm hoping he'll show up and post some stories. FunkOdyssey has told me about using this method to promote imminst as well.
So the basic idea is to go to other forums related to imminst, and lurk in them to try to spot threads related to imminst topics, and ideally find people who would like to become a part of imminst.
Here are the examples of topics and forums where we could start lurking:
Philosophy (http://forums.philosophyforums.com/)
Science (http://www.sciencefo...forum/index.php)
Artificial Intelligence (http://www.ai-forum.....asp?forum_id=1)
Health
Medicine
Technology
Life Extension
This is just a quick list I threw together, but like I said I'm looking for more suggestions to add onto this list of either other more topics or more forums related to these topics.
I'm going to start at the Philosophy forum, because I think they might be the most open-minded. I'm going to post updates as I go along. I'm basically learning as I go. My hope is that if at least 2-3 imminst-ers are replying to threads in a single forum, we can inspire some change and get people to start asking questions.
Well... I'm off. I hope to hear feedback about this soon and I'll post my results as soon as I have some.
EDIT:
I've decided I'm going to start putting together a list of sub-topics in these forums that seem similar to those already in imminst... I see these as having a lot of potential and incentive for us to post in. Here it goes...
AI Forums:
"Could AI turn against humanity?" - http://www.ai-forum....;topic_id=67267
Philosophy Forums:
"The Future of Humanity" - http://forums.philos...nity-32635.html
"The Matrix Film. is that possible?" - http://forums.philos...ible-32860.html
"Can a machine know?" - http://forums.philos...know-17205.html
That's all for now. I'm sure I'll add to this list soon enough though. Please feel free to go lurking and reply to this thread with topics that you find interesting.
Edited by Vgamer1, 15 January 2009 - 11:16 PM.