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chejazi | 3 years ago

> Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians?

As Jim McCoy said, it takes Evil Geniuses to really get the job done.

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neilv|3 years ago

Circa 1999, the Zero Knowledge Systems (ZKS) startup had a group called Evil Geniuses.

schoen|3 years ago

There was also a cryptography startup later on called Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow (working on peer-to-peer stuff that I think is slightly akin to Filecoin).

pigeons|3 years ago

I was looking for the source of the quote as I had never heard it, but didn't realize my brain had assumed Leonard not Jim.

rgrieselhuber|3 years ago

Yuval Noah Harari’s speech on how control over one’s biometric data should be handed to the elites in order to hack the human animal was really inspirational.