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Reposting a comment of mine from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731696 Extropians are ever
by kanzure 4y ago
Reposting a comment of mine from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731696
Extropians are everywhere. Many names come to mind, like Assange, Hal Finney, Jurvetson, Carl Feynman, and many others.
I hope that something like this group comes back, but with a vengeance. Call me an optimist, but if they had put their minds to it, they could have accomplished much more than a mailing list, which has unfortunately dwindled in the last 10 years.
Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians?
- chejazi 4y ago> Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians? As Jim McCoy said, it takes Evil Geniuses to really get the job done.
- pigeons 4y agoI was looking for the source of the quote as I had never heard it, but didn't realize my brain had assumed Leonard not Jim.
- neilv 4y agoCirca 1999, the Zero Knowledge Systems (ZKS) startup had a group called Evil Geniuses.
- schoen 4y agoThere was also a cryptography startup later on called Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow (working on peer-to-peer stuff that I think is slightly akin to Filecoin).
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoYuval Noah Harari’s speech on how control over one’s biometric data should be handed to the elites in order to hack the human animal was really inspirational.
- ArtofIndirect 4y agoExtropians hack reality versus a purpose built man made machine: https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c Ideas like designer drugs and therapy to embed experience and knowledge is way more interesting than VR apps