Hplusroadmap Chat

The Hplusroadmap chat room—#hplusroadmap on the freenode server, port 6667—is the official IRC chatroom of the hplusroadmap group. See http://heybryan.org. This chatroom is for people who are interested in personally working in frontier science, in areas like biotech, nanotech, and AI.

If you're looking for advice on a project in this area, then please visit this chatroom, and give a brief explanation of the projects you want to work on. You may need to wait a while before someone replies. Most of the people there only check the IRC chatroom a few times per day, because they're busy working on other important stuff.

Etiquette

• Although #hplusroadmap doesn't need to stick to technical topics, it is the policy of #hplusroadmap not to have certain kinds of discussions that appear on other IRC channels. In particular, #hplusroadmap does not allow discussion of l33t w4r3z, sex jokes, or other "pack of junior males" behavior.
• Please speak like a civilized human being. L33t sp33k, excessive use of smilies and vapid acronyms, and other forms of degenerate communication will not be met with approval (unless used in tasteful humor). We will, however, do our best to accomodate non-native English speakers.
• If someone brings in a person new to transhumanist issues for an introduction, please don't interrupt the conversation with that person unless you have something relevant to say, or unless the newcomer seems to be looking for random friendly chat.
• Don't be offended if you ask a factual question and the answer is "Google". Unlike other IRC channels, we give you enough credit to be able to perform a simple Web search.
• Just start talking. If you keep saying "hi" and no one is responding, it's because "hi" isn't a very interesting topic. If you want to talk about something, start talking about it and see if anyone responds. Most people in #hplusroadmap keep an eye on the channel while they work on other things and will return to chat if they have the time and interest.
• No bots. One need only recall the time google-bot visisted to understand how quickly a bot can destory the channel.
• The #hplusroadmap channel is logged.  Some individuals keep private logs and may be willing to share.

Connecting

You may see a message that says "The application's digital signature cannot be verified" when the applet first loads.  This is normal.   You will need to allow the java application to run in order to connect to the chatroom.

Note that #hplusroadmap runs on the same machine as several other organizations, whose chat rooms will also appear if you connect to freenode as your IRC server. These other organizations and their chat rooms are not affiliated with http://heybryan.org. (Although there is considerable overlap between the people who hang out in, for example, #cosmeng, #hplusroadmap, #lesswrong, and #transhumanism.)

To join one of these other chatrooms, use the /join command. For example, to join the #transhumanism channel, you would enter "/join #transhumanism" in the chat window.

You can connect to #hplusroadmap using any IRC client (see a partial list of IRC clients by environment). The following applet should also let you connect to #hplusroadmap directly if you are using a Java-enabled browser: