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Reposting a comment of mine from 10 months ago: 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?



> Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians?

As Jim McCoy said, it takes Evil Geniuses to really get the job done.


Circa 1999, the Zero Knowledge Systems (ZKS) startup had a group called Evil Geniuses.


There 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).


I 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.


Yuval 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.


Extropians hack reality versus a purpose built man made machine: https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c

Ideas like designer drugs and therapy to embed experience and knowledge is way more interesting than VR apps




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