EXTRO 1

The First Extropy Institute Conference on Transhumanist Thought

Proceedings and audio tapes

PROCEEDINGS (approx. 160 pages)

Contents

Extropian Principles 2.5

Max More

Mathematical Immortalism: A Progress Report

R. Michael Perry

Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for Memetic

Progress

Max More

Why Respect the Law? The Polycentric Justification of Jurisdiction

T. O. Morrow

Five Things You Can Do To Fight Entropy Now

Romana Machado

SIMNET: A Neural Network Simulator for Modeling Complex Dy-

namical Systems

Simon D. Levy

The Age of Robots

Hans Moravec

The Endocrinology of Aging: Can We Prevent Senescence?

Christopher B. Heward

Cryonics, Cryptanalysis, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Ralph C. Merkle

Comet Mining: An Overview

Nick Szabo

“Rapture of the Future” Can Be Treated!

Klaus! von Future Prime (avatar: Timothy C. May)

Lextropicon

Max More

Mailing List Information, Exl Tapes and Books

AUDIO TAPES OF EXTRO 1 SESSIONS

Michael Perry: Mathematical Immortalism $10

Max More: Pancritical Rationalism: An Extropic Metacontext for Memetic Progress $11

Tom Morrow: Why Respect the Law? The Polycentric Justification of Jurisdiction $11

Simon! D. Levy: SIMNET: A Neural Network Simulator for Modeling Complex Dynamical Systems+ Romana Machado: Five Things You Can Do To Fight Entropy Now $11

Hans Moravec: The Age of Robots $12

Chris Heward: The Endocrinology of Aging: Can We Prevent Senescence? $11

Ralph Merkle: Cryonics, Cryptography, and Maximum Likelihood Estimation $12

Extropian Virtual Community: Past, Present, and Future $10

Videotapes of some of the sessions may become available in the near future.

Prices for audio tapes include postage. Exl members & conference attendees may subtract $1 per tape.

Proceedings: $18 + $2 postage

Make checks payable to “Extropy Institute” and mail to 13428 Maxella Avenue, #273, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292.

More Dynamic Optimists — NOT!

“Lee De Forest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transmit the human voice across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public… has been persuaded to buy stock in his company.” U.S. District Attorney, at the mail fraud trial of Lee De Forest, “Father of Radio”, 1913.

“That Professor Goddard and his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institute does not know the relation of action and reaction and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” The New York Times, January 13 1920.

“The ordinary ‘horseless carriage’ is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.” The Literary Digest, October 14 1889.

I must confess that in my imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.” H.G. Wells, in Anticipations, 1901.

“In my opinion such a thing is impossible for many years… [P]eople… have been talking about a 3000 miles high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon… I think we can leave that out of our thinking.” Dr. Vannevar Bush, testimony to Senate Committee, 1945.

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