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> Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians? As Jim McCoy said, it takes Evil Geniuses to really get the job done.
by 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.