THE LESSWRONG SAGA, PART ONE: MORE THINGS ON HEAVEN AND EAR
On this first episode of a new series, we begin to gaze into the black seas of infinity that are Effective Altruism and Rationalism.
Sources: https://jrnj.org/lw_ep1_notes.html
An interesting thing we didn't talk about is that an unusually large number of people on the Extropians list later became famous, including Julian Assange and game designer Steve Jackson (of Munchkin and GURPS fame). On Wei Dai's archive of the mailing list I count 204 members, so this is kind of impressive.