On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 05:14:21AM -0700, PGC wrote: > > > On Friday, April 26, 2019 at 2:02:05 AM UTC+2, Jason wrote: > > This list has been active for over 20 years (since 1998), but to my > knowledge there has never been an organized event for for members of this > list to meet and discuss topics in person. > > > The small European side has always tried to reach out to each other. No > success > record but a few discussions were had in person.
I have personally met Bruno Marchal, Youness Ayaita and frequently had a beer with Kim Jones, as I only live about 3km from the latter. I did try connecting up with Juegen Schmidhuber on one of my trips, although all I've managed so far is to meet Marcus Hutter, who as far as I know doesn't even lurk on the everything-list. We have had some fun, long-ranging conversations, but I don't think ever solved any extant problem :). I've tried reaching out to the Melbourne crowd on my odd trip down there, but for one reason or other never quite managed to meet up. As a shout out, I will be visiting Melbourne over the weekend of the 25th May, so that might be a possibility to meet up. > > > > Is this something any participants of this list be interested in, > attending > and perhaps presenting at, should such an event were to be organized? > > I think in-person panels/presentations/discussions it could do a lot to > overcome some long-standing debates on this list. > > If you are interested, I have created an anonymous survey form: > https://forms.gle/AKHxJpeYUgv35g2J7 > > I welcome others to share thoughts, comments, concerns, on whether this > idea does or does not make sense. > > > Any positive initiative towards meeting folks in person, outside the anomie > kind of void of staring into screens through impersonal screen names, is a > responsible use of personal freedom. > > Go see things and people for yourself. Not to swallow everything we read on a > screen. Of course it can turn out to be a disappointment. That's why it > matters > though. Being there for ourselves and others beyond predictable typed > responses. > > The prevalent attitude and certainty at least from some European folk on this > list... to never even try, to shoot anybody with "ambition" to explore and > open > ourselves to others beyond the keyboard, as if it were a crime... I've never > understood that. PGC > "Have an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out". I mostly think we get the balance right on the everything-list, otherwise I would have abandoned it years ago, like I did with the FOR list. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
