e/acc: Too sad the old unashamed transhumanism has completely disappeared. It was great talking about transforming the cosmos in our design
LessWrong: hello we're still here
e/acc: Sometimes I can still hear their voice
@sophon
I mean if they start writing stuff that's more out there than Eternity in Six Hours and the acausalism stuff I'll be all up for it but until then I'll have to continue saying "here's a nickel kid, go buy yourself a real futurism"
@sophon@plma.plus.st @niplav@schelling.pt anyone still remembers the extropians?
@niconiconi @sophon
yup what a great name
was before my time tho
maybe someday i'll read the mailing list archives, must've been utterly deranged
@niplav@schelling.pt @sophon@plma.plus.st Also before my time. I only learned its existence while reading the Cypherpunk list archive. The overlapping of both groups is pretty interesting (but not that surprising when you think that even Yudkowsky used the security of OpenBSD as an analogy)...
@niconiconi @sophon
yeah i mean Wei Dai & Hal Finney were both cypherpunks (and heavily involved in bitcoin early on) *and* extropians and active in the rationality community
I'm pretty sure if I read the archives I'd find some surprising further connections, the 'net wasn't that big back then
@niplav @niconiconi @sophon we've still got an extropian or two around, paging @jdp
@niplav @niconiconi haven’t read the cypherpunk archives but I’ve read the sl4 archives. young yudkowsky is so cute lol
@sophon@plma.plus.st @niplav@schelling.pt the young Yudkowsky looks totally like a shonen anime protagonist to me (not a surprise that he later became a fan-fic writer).
@niconiconi @niplav oh for sure, he was very arrogant too
@niplav e/accs: omg we’re the real transhumanists, we vanished for decades
lesswrong: get off my lawn