The first organized group of modern transhumanists was the Extropian movement. It can be traced back to the late 1980s, after Max More and T.O. Morrow founded the Extropy Institute in 1988. The neologism “extropy” was defined by More as “th…and Kurzweil, and TESCREAL Internet personalities like Yudkowsky who have endorsed military strikes against data centers, if necessary, to stop a hypothetical AGI apocalypse (Yudkowsky, 2023). Collectively, TESCREAL billionaires have suppor…
Max More
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Max More is a transhumanist philosopher and co-founder of the Extropy Institute (1988), credited with coining "extropy" as a measure of systems intelligence and laying early intellectual foundations for organized transhumanism. The course readings position him as a key architect of the ideological lineage connecting contemporary AI acceleration movements and effective altruism networks, though he appears primarily as a historical reference point for understanding how transhumanist thinking became embedded in tech culture and futurism discourse.
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