[ExI] In the News

[BillK]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 02:50, Keith Henson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence
>
> Bloodthirsty Vegans, oh my.
>
> (short snip)
>
> In the 2000s, Yudkowsky began building on the work of earlier AI
> theorists. In a series of blogposts, he argued that the tsunami was
> coming – and would remake everything in its tidal path. By the time he
> was 20, his writing won the attention of AI academics, who accepted
> him into their ranks despite the fact that Yudkowsky never attended
> high school.
>
> Today Yudkowsky is regarded as a leader of the “doomers”, a faction
> whose members believe that superintelligent AI will be unambiguously
> bad for humanity and perhaps even cause our extinction. That wasn’t
> always the case.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Between this and the bitcoin business, extropy has been getting
> considerable attention.
>
> Keith
> _______________________________________________


Fascinating story!
But it is not really about extropy.
The words extropy or extropian don't appear in the article.
The article is about the Rationalists and the Effective Altruism
groups and how some people took their ideas too far.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism>

Some of the people involved were associated with Extropy in the early
days, but left about 15 to 20 years ago to do their own thing.

I suppose that is what happens when you decide that Exi-chat is not
quite crazy enough to suit you!  :)

BillK