[ExI] History

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Fascinating! Would be fun to read about how it developed since then.

Best regards,
Daniel


On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:

> There is an article from someone who has looked into the history of this list.
>
> https://www.maximumprogress.org/extropia-archaeology
>
> " A group of a few dozen prolific posters are the seeds of the online
> intellectual communities around AI, existential risk, accelerationism,
> effective altruism, rationalism, libertarianism, and cryptocurrency.
>
> " Whether you have heard of the Extropians or not, they have influenced you."
>
> It's an amusing read.
>
> It will be very interesting to see where things go in the next couple
> of years as AI matures and (possibly) we see alien megastructures that
> were anticipated by the Extropians of yore.
>
> Keith
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