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[Mind]

I am excited to announce the next guest of the Sunday evening chat: world famous transhumanist, futurist, and co-founder of Betterhumans - George Dvorksy! Background info here and here.

The chat time is 6:30 p.m. central time U.S., Sunday November 18th. This will once again be an IRC chat. For directions on how to log into the Imminst chat room see here.

FYI: Imminst leadership has been experimenting with skypecast for the Sunday evening chat and hope to implement this in the near future. This will allow a voice chat/interview to be ongoing as well as text chat. Also, the next chat (Sunday November 25th) will be earlier, around 3:00 p.m. in order to make the chat more accessible for European members. I will present an exact time once the guest is determined.

[Live Forever]

Sounds good, George Dvorsky should be wonderful.


http://en.wikipedia..../George_Dvorsky
For anyone wanting more info on him.

[Live Forever]

For the times around the world at 6:30 Central time in the US on Sunday, see this link:
http://www.timeandda...=30&sec=0&p1=70

[mitkat]

Crossposted to Betterhumans.com, as we discussed Mind!

[cyborgdreamer]

I haven't been able to get into the chats because I keep getting this message:

ERROR: java.net.SocketException:
Software caused connection abort:
connect
couldn't find irc server: irc.lucifer.com, go back and try another one please

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Live Forever]

Crossposted to Betterhumans.com, as we discussed Mind!

Heh, I posted about it just a few minutes before you did: http://www.betterhum...at-ImmInst.aspx

I guess it is double posted now. )

[Live Forever]

I haven't been able to get into the chats because I keep getting this message:

ERROR: java.net.SocketException:
Software caused connection abort:
connect
couldn't find irc server: irc.lucifer.com, go back and try another one please

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Are you 1) allowing the certificate when you first click on it, 2) allowing javascript, 3) sure you aren't behind a firewall, and 4) allowing popups? If yes to all of those, then I don't have any further ideas. I bet it is the javascript thing though (or you didn't allow the certificate).

[Matt]

I haven't been able to get into the chats because I keep getting this message:

ERROR: java.net.SocketException:
Software caused connection abort:
connect
couldn't find irc server: irc.lucifer.com, go back and try another one please

Does anyone know how to fix this?

http://www.mirc.com/get.html

[Live Forever]

*bump*

Coming up tomorrow evening. Should be a good one. [thumb]

[caston]

yeah definately big problems connecting:

From the javaclient:
couldn't find irc server: irc.lucifer.com , go back and try another one please.

On xchat I get:

Perl interface loaded
* Looking up irc.lucifer.com
* Connecting to irc.lucifer.com (68.144.65.89) port 6667...
* Connection failed. Error: Connection timed out
Cycling to next server in imminst...
* Disconnected ().
* Looking up irc.extropy.org
* Connecting to spock.extropy.org (209.115.169.3) port 6667...
* Connection failed. Error: Connection timed out

Yet I have no problems connecting to EFFnet and Afternet.

[Lucifer]

The IRC server (lucifer.com) is down and I won't have access to reboot it until tomorrow. We'll have to come up with alternate plans.

[Live Forever]

Uh oh, no chat then?

We probably need to get on a stable server that isn't going to have such problems for future chats.

[mitkat]

Is someone going to formally contact George and apologize or do I need to? I know he'll reschedule in time

[Lucifer]

IRC server is back up as of a few minutes ago. We may be in luck after all.

[mitkat]

Looks like the chat room is back up! Thank merciful zoroaster as I didn't want to have to tell George about any such silliness.

edit: lol...didn't see your post Lucifer

[Mind]

I just checked the chatroom and it is currently working

[Mind]

OK, I am going into the chat room now to await the arrival of Mr. Dvorsky and also for some small talk.

[Mind]

Here is the log of the chat with Mr. Dvorsky. Some good stuff in there.

Attached Files

•  dvorsky_log.txt   34.14KB   710 downloads

[Live Forever]

Thanks for the log, Mind!

[Athanasios]

I enjoyed it and learned quite a bit. Great guest booking Mind.

[Mind]

I love the fact that betterhumans will be going for a marketing angle next year (as part of their activities). Marketing real tech/bio advances that people can use right now to improve themsleves. Best of luck to George, Simon and the whole gang.