People
Cryptographers, roboticists, economists, and philosophers. The people behind the movement.
Futures theorist, artist, designer, longevity expert, and president of the Extropy Institute. Contributed artistic visions of posthuman futures.
Co-founder of Extropy magazine. Specializes in intellectual property, Internet law, and special jurisdictions.
Cryptographer, wrote about electronic cash in Issue #10, received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi. Cryopreserved at Alcor.
Early bitcoin supporter, community figure, wrote about exercise and longevity in Extropy, and is active in preserving Hal Finney's legacy.
Cryptographer, created bit gold and formalized smart contracts.
Philosopher, founded the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, authored Superintelligence.
Joined the mailing list at 17, co-founded MIRI, central figure in AI alignment and rationalism.
Robotics pioneer at Carnegie Mellon, author of Mind Children, keynote speaker at Extro 1.
Posted on the mailing list in the mid-1990s on privacy and cryptography. Later founded WikiLeaks.
Philosopher and researcher on existential risk and cognitive enhancement.
Physicist and computer scientist active in transhumanist and futurist communities.
Computer scientist and entrepreneur who created and ran the Extropians mailing list.
Computer scientist who pioneered agoric computing and capability-based security.
Developed the Matrioshka Brain concept direct evolution from the Jupiter Brain discussions on the Extropians mailing list.
Software engineer at Apple and author. She also invented a steganography program called Stego.