X-Message-Number: 5012 From: (Robin Hanson) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 12:30:46 PDT Subject: Re: Memory, ischemia and freezing: let's put the discussion on the web In #5009, (David Stodolsky) writes: >>And if the webmaster got really ambitious, some of the more hotly >>debated topics could be reformulated as questions suitable for >>Idea Futures. If some of the Caribean web-based gambling operations > >Unfortunately, another Not Invented Here (NIH) project, which in fact >reifies the entire scientific system and duplicates a venture capital >market. This critique of Idea Futures is opaque. Care to rephrase? >For an intro to a scientific communication system which explicitly >introduces the equivalent of a venture capital market into the publication >process see: >URL: ftp://ftp.eu.net/documents/authors/Stodolsky/selfman.crit.dialog This URL is missing a .Z at the end. David has developed intriquing protocols for managing conversations, such as giving the floor to the person who has spoken for the least time so far. He also proposes (but does not seem to have tried) a protocol where, if everyone agrees that B's criticism of A was on target, then A loses conversation time. These are interesting ideas, but hardly seem a serious alternative to either Idea Futures or Ralph's fine proposal for a web Cryonics journal. Robin Hanson http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/ 818-683-9153 2433 Oswego St., Pasadena, CA 91107 FAX: 818-405-9841 818-395-4289 Div. Hum. & Soc. Sci. 228-77 Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5012