[ExI] In the News

[efc at disroot.org]

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

> On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 16:26, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
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>
> Sorry, I don't know much about the Rationalist groups.
> The Guardian news article describes the strange behaviour and mental
> breakdowns of the cases of some people from those groups.

Ahh, got it! I thought it was some bigger movement or event than just some 
crazy people.

> BillK
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