[chejazi]

> Cypherpunks write code- but what about the extropians?

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

[neilv]

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

[schoen]

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]

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]

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.