What is an extropian?
According to Eric Watt Forste, 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. Just a few examples are “space development”, “cryonics”, “life extension”, “memetics”, “artificial intelligence”, and “smart drugs”. The name is related to the magazine Extropy, created by Max More and Tom Morrow in 1988. Many people found the ideas in the magazine agreed well with their own, and had not had a name up to that point. Forste also cites correlation between self-identification as “extropian” and each of the following qualities and/or self-identities: courageous critical curious disagreeing with another self-identified “extropian” on at least one point explorer neophile not relying on authorities as the final word optimist questioning and experimenting taking responsibility for one’s own actions and explorations wanting a better life, growth, improvement, increase, and
