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

@niplav e/accs: omg we’re the real transhumanists, we vanished for decades

lesswrong: get off my lawn :gigachad1:

@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

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