[ExI] In the News

[efc at disroot.org]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> 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.

In what way did they take their ideas too far? I thought EA was the current
darling of the rationalist crowd?

> <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
>
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