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FYI, I moved the “Let’s Edit the new Physics of Focus Fusion Seminar” to a new thread: https://focusfusion.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/1081/ – in case it turns into a focused discussion.

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Yes, the Alcator C-Mod group have been very active. They’ve set up a site – http://fusionfuture.org

I talk about them over at Fusion Energy League: http://www.fusionenergyleague.org/index.php/blog/article/fusion_future_save_alcator_c_mod

One of them sent me these talking points, which I also posted there: http://www.fusionenergyleague.org/index.php/blog/article/doe_2013_budget_request_would_cut_300_high_tech_jobs_in_massachusetts

And they also organized a live chat: http://www.fusionenergyleague.org/index.php/blog/article/live_chat_the_fate_of_fusion

Very active bunch!

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Experimental arborealists are a powerful voting bloc. I wouldn’t stand in their way. Like the trees, we’ll have to walk carefully around them.

The cost…”Kurzweil ingests “250 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea” every day and drinks several glasses of red wine a week in an effort to “reprogram” his biochemistry.[45] Lately, he has cut down the number of supplement pills to 150.[46]” I want PIE! Do or die! The red wine sounds OK.

You guys keep working on that immortality thing – I’m going to shop around the movie idea, get a three picture deal, crank it out. The “Singularity Resurrection” film project.

The clock is ticking.

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JimmyT wrote: Like I said: When you get sick do YOU seek medical attention?

I tend to wait it out. Haven’t been to a doctor in ages.

Studies have shown that most people will not take action to save their lives, if that action is exercise, eating right, quitting smoking, etc. I don’t think most people will have to face the prospect of immortality. Some will try for a while, but fall off the wagon.

For every vampire (supernatural immortal) there’s a stake. For every immortal wanna be, lots of steak.

The Christian path of waiting for the resurrection for immortality seems a lot simpler, and you get to go to church on Sundays and sing with other believers.

I guess the yearning for immortality is pretty widespread. The long lifers, the Christians, even Bhuddist Nirvana (which, although it’s about the annihilation of want/desire/delusion, still has an echo of ego – why not just kick the bucket? Why consciously exist in a state of non-desire and transcendence?)

I hope you all find your bliss.

A great sitcom! There’s this long-lifer who succeeds in being immortal, and this Christian who’s been resurrected, and they become roomates on a spaceship headed everywhere! All around them is their Bhuddist roomate in a state of nonbeing. Everywhere they land, the Long Lifer checks off his scavenger hunt list about things to see and do and experience and master and tweet about, the Christian praises the lord, and the Bhuddist is not tempted to rematerialize. And then there’s their resurrected Muslim roomate with the virgins. Who are really annoying because they persist in being virgins the whole time (72 lovely beings always saying “NO!” Very important for the series, because you have to keep the sexual tension going without consummation to keep the viewers coming back. Look at the success of “Twilight”.)

Hours of fun!

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wolfram wrote: This is delightful, we should have a party! How bout a rousing game of diplomacy to destroy the community cohesion we so enjoy?
edit: BTW, who do we have to talk to about getting an advance copy of the article? I’d like to peruse it and talk with some of the faculty here at U of Iowa.

Yes! Party time! We’re long overdue! Who wants to meet in NYC or NJ (Princeton? Rutgers?)

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Congratulations LPP! “b” is for brilliant!

Hey Matt! Sorry about usurping your post. It seems that when I link the forum post to an article, it attributes that first post to me. Very annoying. I brought it up on the expression engine forums. (“b” is for bugs!)

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Concentration of biomass, concentration of capital.

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Great! I have just facebook/tweeted about you!

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Bravo! You’re my hero!

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Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired has said:

Fancy algorithms and cool technology make true anonymity in mediated environments more possible today than ever before…however, in every system I have seen where anonymity becomes common, the system fails. Anonymity is like a rare-earth metal…a necessary ingredient in keeping a cell alive, but the amount needed is a mere hard-to-measure trace. In larger doses these heavy metals are some of the most toxic substances. In vanishingly small doses, it’s good for the system by enabling the occasional whistleblower or persecuted fringe. But if anonymity is present in any significant quantity, it will poison the system…Trust requires persistent identity. In the end, the more trust the better. Like all toxins, anonymity should be kept as close to zero as possible.

In short, require login.

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There probably is. Probably requires a plugin so that we can pull the info from our site and populate the wiki. I’ll look into it.

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Ivy Matt wrote:
I think I understand what you’re asking now. Every month the FFS will be sending out a newsletter that will include a link to the LPP update, but should also include some other stuff not directly related to LPP research. Correct? In that case, I think the thing I would be most interested in is news from other fusion projects, including but not limited to such mainstream projects as ITER and NIF.

Yes. Think of it as part of the FFS social media strategy. What is the organization trying to accomplish with newsletters? What is the organization trying to accomplish, in general? If our newsletters are all about LPP news, plus a few other fusion projects – that would make us a news aggregator: FFS as a media outlet reporting on fusion, mostly LPP, and stochastically a few others. Is that our purpose? We’re a nonprofit, a charity. Seems like there should be a deeper purpose and it should come through in the newsletters.

Rule of thumb, no more than 5 topics per newsletter. One paragraph per topic, linking back to our website. We don’t have to do it this way, it’s just a suggestion from other social media practitioners.

Regarding my list of figures, unfortunately I haven’t maintained it for a number of months, but I’ll see what I can do to get it updated to the end of January, 2012. Looking at the last few updates, I will probably need to add some new categories.

Thank you! Much appreciated! Better than Money. Congratulations on the job, by the by!

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jamesr wrote: I think we should adopt the squatting man as our mascot

Yes!

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OK, about getting it up on our forums and such, now we have to get an extension/plugin for expression engine.

See discussion of this I initiated on the expression engine forums: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/210326

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Fantastic! You guys Rock!

James, can you put a short article in the wiki about how to use it? And a link here? Or Ignas, can you add that information to the Toolbox sidebar so it’s there on every page?

This is so cool!

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