[extropy-chat] people being people

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:29 PM 2/10/2005 -0600, Reason fwd'd:

>in the autumn of 1997, I got a letter from a tiny group calling itself the 
>M.I.T. Extropians. They had mailed an inflammatory—and wholly 
>unauthorized—eight-page pamphlet to the entire incoming freshman class, 
>myself included. In it, they praised hoary teenage standbys like Ayn Rand, 
>Beethoven, and Nietzsche; waxed philosophical about life extension, 
>cybernetics, and neural networks; and disturbingly issued several sweeping 
>statements about women and minorities, lashing out against affirmative 
>action and M.I.T.'s liberal diversity policies.

Who were these sweeties? Anyone know? (I have a vague memory of Max or some 
other extropian bigwheel dissociating the extropes from this self-named 
splinter group.)

Damien Broderick