Contributors

People

Cryptographers, roboticists, economists, and philosophers. The people behind the movement.

Max More

Max More is the founder of Extropy Magazine and Institute, philosopher, futurist, transhumanist, and former CEO of Alcor.

PhilosophyCryonicsTranshumanism
Natasha Vita-More

Futures theorist, artist, designer, longevity expert, and president of the Extropy Institute. Contributed artistic visions of posthuman futures.

LongevityTranshumanismDesign
Tom W. Bell

Co-founder of Extropy magazine. Specializes in intellectual property, Internet law, and special jurisdictions.

Legal TheoryLawIntellectual Property
FM-2030

Transhumanist icon who treated aging and death as problems to solve. Cryopreserved at Alcor.

TranshumanismCryonics
Hal Finney

Cryptographer, wrote about electronic cash in Issue #10, received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi. Cryopreserved at Alcor.

CryptographyDigital CashCryonics
Fran Finney

Early bitcoin supporter, community figure, wrote about exercise and longevity in Extropy, and is active in preserving Hal Finney's legacy.

BitcoinCommunity
Nick Szabo

Cryptographer, created bit gold and formalized smart contracts.

CryptographySmart Contracts
Wei Dai

Created b-money in 1998, cited directly in the Bitcoin whitepaper.

CryptographyDigital Cash
Robin Hanson

Economist, invented Idea Futures and prediction markets.

EconomicsPrediction Markets
Nick Bostrom

Philosopher, founded the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, authored Superintelligence.

PhilosophyAIExistential Risk
Eric Drexler

Nanotechnology visionary, author of Engines of Creation.

Nanotechnology
Ray Kurzweil

Inventor and futurist, popularized the technological singularity concept.

AISingularity
Eliezer Yudkowsky

Joined the mailing list at 17, co-founded MIRI, central figure in AI alignment and rationalism.

AI AlignmentRationalism
Hans Moravec

Robotics pioneer at Carnegie Mellon, author of Mind Children, keynote speaker at Extro 1.

RoboticsMind Uploading
Marvin Minsky

Pioneer of artificial intelligence.

AI
Julian Assange

Posted on the mailing list in the mid-1990s on privacy and cryptography. Later founded WikiLeaks.

CryptographyPrivacy
Anders Sandberg

Philosopher and researcher on existential risk and cognitive enhancement.

Existential RiskCognitive Enhancement
Ralph Merkle

Pioneering figure in cryonics and nanotechnology.

CryonicsNanotechnology
Reilly Jones

Philosopher focused on consciousness, governance, and spontaneous order.

Philosophy
Giulio Prisco

Physicist and computer scientist active in transhumanist and futurist communities.

PhysicsComputer ScienceTranshumanism
Perry Metzger

Computer scientist and entrepreneur who created and ran the Extropians mailing list.

CommunityEntrepreneurship
Mark S. Miller

Computer scientist who pioneered agoric computing and capability-based security.

Computer ScienceSecurity
Robert Bradbury

Developed the Matrioshka Brain concept direct evolution from the Jupiter Brain discussions on the Extropians mailing list.

SpaceFuture Studies
Tim May

Cypherpunk best known for the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto.

CryptographyPrivacy
Eugene Leitl

Active in nanotechnology and cryonics discussions.

NanotechnologyCryonics
Romana Machado

Software engineer at Apple and author. She also invented a steganography program called Stego.

TechnologyAuthor