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	Extropian Principles 3.0
		Extropians are committed to deepening their wisdom, honing their rationality, and augmenting their physical, intellectual, and emotional qualities.
		Extropians are neophiles and experimentalists who track new research for more efficient means of achieving goals and who are willing to explore novel technologies of self-transformation.
		Extropians frequently diverge from the mainstream because they refuse to be chained by any dogma, whether religious, political, or intellectual.
	www.againstpolitics.com /extropian_principles.htm (4380 words)

	Transhumanism and Extropianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Extropians see a natural harmony and synergy growing out of the various elements of the transhumanist world view.
		As they explore and develop a new moral philosophy of transhumanism, extropians apply a broad definition of "technology" to their view of the transformation of the human condition, including within their approach to human technology such mental constructs as law and principles of social order.
		Extropians see that a game-theoretic analysis of such "bottom-up" systems of social organization tend toward a natural evolution of cooperation as the most effective means of individual action.
	users.aol.com /gburch3/thext.html (977 words)

	The Extropian Principles 2.5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Extropianism is a transhumanist philosophy: Like humanism, transhumanism values reason and humanity and sees no grounds for belief in unknowable, supernatural forces externally controlling our destiny, but goes further in urging us to push beyond the merely human stage of evolution.
		Extropians are committed to deepening their wisdom, honing their rationality, and augmenting their physical and intellectual capabilities.
		Extropians choose their values and behavior reflectively, standing firm when required but responding flexibly to new conditions.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Cultural/Philosophy/princip.html (2735 words)

	Extropianism FAQ at MROB
		Extropians have a principle called spontaneous order, but politics is by no means the only domain in which they apply it.
		Many extropians are deliberately designing and pursuing their own life extension programs relying on dietary changes, nutrient supplementation, exercise, use of pharmaceuticals with demonstrated life-extending effects, and regular laboratory tests of biomarkers of aging.
		Extropians tend to dislike and distrust massive hierarchies, because of their tendency to ossify into bureaucracies, and because they reward "apparatchik" skills (the political cunning to get ahead in hierarchies) over the skills that actually support the goals of the organization.
	home.earthlink.net /~mrob/pub/extro_faq.html (7868 words)

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		Extropians are rational individualists, living by their own judgment, making critical, informed, and free choices, and accepting responsibility for those choices.
		Extropians are guided in their actions by studying the fields of strategy, decision theory and game theory.
		Extropians hold to both short and long-term optimism: In the short term we can cultivate our lives and enhance ourselves; in the long term the positive potentials for intelligent beings are virtually limitless.
	artofhacking.com /IET/OCCULT/EXTROPIA.TXT (3631 words)

	The Politics of Transhumanism
		The extropian list often was filled with vituperative attacks on divergent points of view, and those who had been alienated by the extropians but were nonetheless sympathetic with transhumanist views began to amount a sizable group.
		Extropianism, which is a combination of transhumanist memes and libertarianism, seems to be one of the more dynamic and well-integrated systems.
		While the libertarian extropians celebrate the biotech and computing entrepreneurs and innovators, they occasionally have qualms about the effects that monopolists such as Microsoft and overly aggressive interpretations of intellectual property law may have on the pace of innovation.
	www.changesurfer.com /Acad/TranshumPolitics.htm (11056 words)

	What is an Extropian ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Extropians seek to use technology intelligently to overcome genetic, biological, psychological, cultural, and neurological limits to the pursuit of life, liberty, and boundless achievment.
		Extropians tend to advocate technologies that seem a little weird to many nonextropians, or technological solutions to problems that many people don't even think of as problems.
		Extropianism is a transhumanist philosophy which provides an inspiring and uplifting meaning and direction to our lives, while remaining flexible and firmly founded in science, reason, and the boundless search for improvement.
	www.users.bigpond.com /dgalea/extropy.htm (326 words)

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		Extropianism may seem to have its face set firmly to the future but actually its roots are in ideas and fads from the past three decades.
		Extropianism seems more American than America itself " almost a parody of the American Dream " so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Max is English, someone who's left the old world behind and reinvented himself on the edge of the Pacific.
		This is why Extropians are most at home in the gravity-free world of cyberspace, where it sometimes appears that the only limit to your imagination is the size of your hard disk.
	hanson.gmu.edu /press/observer-3-26-95.txt (3221 words)

	Transhumanist FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Extropian environmentalism places a high value on the living wilderness simply because it is rare and options exist and more will exist for the continued technological development of consciousness other than consuming those living wilderness zones.
		Most extropians strongly endorse the notion that the highest product of human culture is the scientific method and that the 18th century Enlightenment represented the real birth of a rational human civilization based on the scientific method and a fundamental valuation of human liberty.
		Extropians oppose any program of racialist eugenics on deeply principled grounds: They are inconsistent with the fundamental Enlightenment values of human liberty and dignity and are not supported by any kind of rigorous scientific theory or research.
	www.extropy.org /faq.htm (11438 words)

	56 - Cryptonomicon - Eutropian/Extropian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Extropianism stems from the word extropy, which means "the opposite of entropy".
		An extropian is the follower of the philosophy of the Extropian Institute, which is a form of transhumanism, with a strong emphasis on libertarian politics.
		Extropianism was founded by Max More, who founded the institute and coined the word.
	www.electricinca.com /56/annotations/eutropian.htm (149 words)

	The only Extropian I’ve known well was Sasha Chislenko – a visionary cybertheorist and outstanding applied computer ...
		Yudkowsky, like many of the leading Extropians, started his life as a gifted child; and, like many gifted children, he grew up neglected by the school system and misunderstood by his parents.
		Extropianism provides its adherents with a simple, optimistic world-view, and a community of like-minded believers.
		Many of the freedoms the Extropians seek – the legal freedom to make and take smart drugs, to modify the body and the genome with advanced technology – will probably come soon (though not soon enough for me, or them).
	www.goertzel.org /benzine/extropians.htm (4293 words)

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		I became interested in the Extropians because I share their enthusiasm for the future of technology and society, and their distate for irrationality and mysticism.
		The Extropian Principles, as designed by Max More, which are version-numbered so that they don't get stale, currently define Extropianism as a tranhumanist philosophy.
		The extropian principle of self-transformation does not merely refer to change for change's sake; though with a proper respect for autonomy, diversity and creativity such change should be well-tolerated.
	www.fqa.com /romana/romanaworx/self.html (1739 words)

	Extropian Transhumanist, transhuman Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Extropian artist, technophile bodybuilder and convinced cryonic, Natasha Vita-More shares her optimistic vision of the future of the human race with La Spirale.
		Extropian artist, technophilic body-builder and convinced cryonic, Natasha Vita- More shares her optimistic vision of the future of the human race with La Spirale.
		The extropian philosophy is a specific type of transhumanism and a philosophy of life that seeks the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and limits.
	www.transhumanist.biz /interviews.htm (5192 words)

	Extropian Principles at MROB
		Extropians therefore favor surging ahead delighting in future shock rather than ignobly stagnating or reverting to primitivism.
		The Extropian Principles 2.6 may be reproduced in any publication, private or public, physical or electronic, without need for further authorization, so long as they appear unedited, in their entirety and with this notice.
		The Extropian Principles 2.6 are copyright ©1995 by Max More, Ph.D., c/o Extropy Institute, 13428 Maxella Avenue, #273, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292.
	home.earthlink.net /~mrob/pub/extro_prin.html (2854 words)

	AlterNet: Extropian Trash
		The extropians decide that science is going to save them from everything, especially growing old and dying.
		After all, extropian heaven is automatically within reach if you can afford all the life-extending gadgets and pills that will supposedly hit the marketplace any day now.
		Extropians, for all their future worship, are part of the same cultural bent toward superstition that has led George W. Bush and other right-wingers to proclaim that stem cells are full of little souls, abortion is murder, global warming is a myth and peer-to-peer networks are used primarily to disseminate child pornography.
	www.alternet.org /columnists/story/19850 (774 words)

	The Objectivist-Extropian Synthesis
		All of these aspects of Objectivist thought are of potentially immense use to the Extropian and libertarian movements, as shall be further demonstrated.
		The Extropians’ focus on practical problems afflicting man is commendable, but it should not act to the detriment of moral values and a radiant affirmation of human life through abstract principles such as self-esteem and romantic love.
		The Extropian movement, on the other hand, has produced a flowering of innovative scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs, whose visions of a technological future have the potential of becoming the concrete manifestations of Objectivist theory.
	www.geocities.com /rational_argumentator/OEsynthesis.html (3342 words)

	Pancritical Rationalism
		Naturally I think the two sets of ideas fit well together, such that an Extropian is likely to find PCR appealing, and a pancritical rationalist has a good chance of adopting Extropian ideas if she comes across them in an appropriate context.
		In my formulations of Extropian cognitive habits, I have always stressed that we should tie our feelings of pride and self-esteem not to how often we can convince ourselves that we are right, but to how open we are to reevaluating our positions and to revising them when we cannot rebut criticism.
		In this paper I have sought to convey the essence of the pancritical conception of what it is to be a rationalist, and to show why this conception should be especially appealing to we who profess extropic values, practices, and goals in our lives.
	www.maxmore.com /pcr.htm (7246 words)

	2.10: Meet the Extropians
		But if the Extropians are right, off in the dim mist is a grand new order of things, one that is not so much physical or political as it is metaphysical, founded upon a lavishly expanded conception of human possibility.
		The Extropians are the first ones to realize this, the first to make a doctrine and a program out of it, wrap it up into a system, and offer it to the outside world - which is exactly what they were doing at Extro 1.
		But what the Extropians lack in numbers they make up for in sheer brains; at various times people like artificial intelligence theorist Marvin Minsky, nanotechnologist Eric Drexler, and USC professor Bart Kosko (of fuzzy logic fame) have been found lurking on extropians@extropy.org.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.10/extropians_pr.html (4140 words)

	MetroActive CyberScape \| Freeze Head, Save Ass
		Extropians are definitely pro-growth; they're all for "expanding into the universe and advancing without end," as More's principles spell it out.
		Extropians and Alcor clients (whose memberships tend to overlap) are banking on "transcending" human limits.
		This is why many Extropians have opted for the cryonics head plan, the "neuro option." It's much cheaper, they note with their signature grasp of economics, to freeze just a person's head rather than her entire body.
	www.metroactive.com /cyber/extro.html (4403 words)

	Techsploitation \| San Francisco Bay Guardian
		Others request that their bodies or heads be cryogenically frozen after they die so they can be revived, Futurama-style, in a far-distant future in which everything is perfect and glorious and subject only to the laws of extropy.
		Plus, the extropians are a perfect fit for the U.S. political system because they appear to offer an alternative way of thinking while actually reinforcing the status quo.
		Extropians, for all their future worship, are part of the same cultural bent toward superstition that has led George W. Bush and other right-wingers to proclaim that stem cells are full of little souls, abortion is murder, global warming isn't a threat, and peer-to-peer networks are used primarily to disseminate child pornography.
	www.sfbg.com /38/50/x_techsploitation.html (685 words)

	Extropian Principles 3.0
		Extropians therefore favor surging ahead — riding the waves of future shock — rather than stagnating or reverting to primitivism.
		In place of the static perfection of a utopia, we prefer an "extropia"—simply an open, evolving framework allowing individuals and voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer.
		The Extropian Principles 3.0 are copyright ©1998 by Max More, c/o Extropy Institute, 769 El Camino Real, # 234, Sunnyvale, CA 94087.
	www.maxmore.com /extprn3.htm (4557 words)

	EXTROPIANS , PHILOSOPHY , SCIENTISTS , PSYCHOLOGY
		First I became an extropian and after I found in the Web that there are other people with the same ideas !
		My first visions about the ideal society are placed in my childhood but my first attempt to write on paper my ideas was at age of 20 when I was a student in University (1978).
		But, however, if many persons have a similar story, it is a good indication that Extropian Philosophy is embeded into the human DNA.
	users.forthnet.gr /kav/smith/extrop.htm (443 words)

	Pacific News Service > News > Are You An Extropian Transhumanist?
		Now, virtually unnoticed by most political observers, a new movement variously called extropianism or transhumanism is springing up around the world.
		Its chief opponents are the various movements and groups who have taken the field against what they see as rampant and unregulated technological progress.
		The word "extropy" was coined in the late 1980s by a pair of philosophy graduate students who wanted a word to serve as the opposite to the scientific term "entropy" -- which means a decline in a system's useful energy.
	news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=816 (766 words)

	Extropians, Transhumanism, and Extropy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		See the Extropians FAQ list for answers to this and other questions.
		Extropians are also prominent in the research that has been done on
		If you know of any links of specifically extropian interest, please e-mail the URL to arkuat@pobox.com, or include it in a comment on this page.
	www.idiom.com /~arkuat/trans/extropy.html (313 words)

	conform and obey dot co dot uk EXTROPIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		extropians want to overcome human limits through technology. These values include a desire to direct oneself in pursuing perpetual progress and self-transformation with an attitude of practical optimism implemented using rational thinking and intelligent technology in an open society.
		Perpetual progress: Extropians seek to overcome barriers to self-actualization and self-realization and to perpetually overcome constraints to progress and possibilities.
		Rational thinking: Extropians favour reason over faith, promote questioning over dogma and remain open to challenges of their own convictions.
	www.conformandobey.co.uk /pages/extropian.html (412 words)

	Extropianism
		EXTROPIANISM -- The philosophy that seeks to increase extropy.
		Since 1988, when Extropy first appeared, the Extropian philosophy has attracted those wanting to be their best, those who are are bold enough to challenge entrenched dogmas concerning the inevitability of death, of centralized, coercive government, and of fixed limits to human achievement and ability.
		The Extropians e-mail list (extropians-request@extropy.org) has branched out into local e-mail lists, carrying announcements of local meetings and celebrations.
	www.mit.edu:8001 /people/jpbonsen/extropianism.html (1230 words)

	EXTROPY INSTITUTE Frequently Asked Questions, v0.7.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Extropian is a transhumanist who affirms the values and attitudes codified and expressed in The Extropian Principles.
		The Extropian philosophy is a transhumanist philosophy based upon the Extropian Principles.
		The Extropian Principles are the basic declarations of transhumanism that define the Extropian philosophy.
	spock.extropy.org /faq (3516 words)

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