Future Day event in Second Life
March 2, 2012
Future Day event in Second Life, March 1, 2012 (credit: G. Prisco)
A Future Day event was held at Terasem Island in Second Life on March 1, with speakers Natasha Vita-More, Martine Rothblatt, Howard Bloom, Giulio Prisco, Adam A. Ford, and Ben Goertzel (via audio) and about 50 participants.
One of the projects discussed at the event was a Future Day film with positive and solar visions of the future (mostly interviews), for release at Future Day 2013 and distribution via torrent.
Please send your Future Day reports to editors@kurzweilai.net.
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Comments (14)
by Mickey
Can anybody here help hook me up with a custom system to join the Second Life Community.. I Would like to merge as much conscious presence into the Community as possible. That is all. Carry on
by Spikosauropod
To the moderators:
Your front end way of filtering comments has got to be revised. It is much better that an occasional bad comment get posted for a brief period than to have the inevitable suspicion that is bred by seeing a comment sitting for hours (sometimes days) without receiving approval. It is inevitable that participants will become suspicious of the motives behind your filtering process. One can’t help but wonder how many persons we will never hear from simply because their opinions are inconsistent with the philosophy of the moderators.
by Editor
Re “Your front end way of filtering comments has got to be revised.”
Here’s how comments are handled by our WordPress system: The first comment by a new poster must be approved once by an editor (to keep spambots off the system). After that, all comments by that person are posted automatically, except those that fail the standard WordPress Akismet spam filter due to use of a word that is associated with spam of obscenity. Those must be approved by an editor, which is generally done with a few hours. KurzweilAI editors do not filter “bad” comments except when they are spam or in in rare cases, such as personal attacks. To be clear: our editors never filter comments with opinions that are “inconsistent with the philosophy of the moderators.”
by Spikosauropod
Bashar al-Assad says that he is not killing civilians. Yet, they keep dying. You say you do not censor. Yet, I keep getting censored. As you must know from having lived in the world, people and organizations are judged by their actions.
by Giulio Prisco
@Spikosauropod, perhaps you are over-reacting. A delay of a couple of hours in publishing a comment cannot be compared to killing people. Really now.
by Spikosauropod
You know that’s not what I meant. You are talking like a TV pundit.
I still think that your filter, however it works, is working against your credibility.
Stop blaming the messenger. Hire an I.T. person and get it fixed!
by Giulio Prisco
As you see, this comment was published automatically without delay.
by Spikosauropod
Of course it was. You were sitting right there watching for it.
You are silly silly people. I hope calling you that is not technically a flame.
I’ll let it go for another day.
by Spikosauropod
I said, “Festive Future Day.” to everyone I ran into and posted it at the top of the board in all of my classrooms. That gave me the opportunity to explain the concept to a lot of people. It is definitely taking root.
One observation: I found that I felt uncomfortable mentioning it to really old people I know. I inadvertently discovered why a holiday that celebrates the future of the world does not play well in every quarter.
by Kevin George Haskell
We had a lot of fun, and I very much forward to the coming year and what new things we will be working on.
by Kevin George Haskell
*look forward.
by Rolando Martin
Thanks for the timely information!! If I want to participate now I just have to jump in my time machine and go back one day!!!
VERY CLEVER!!!!
by Giulio Prisco
Rolando, perhaps you missed yesterday’s post. All info to participate was there:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/future-day-a-new-global-holiday-march-1
by David Coles
That’s me in the gray shirt under the ‘a’ in Future Day!