Archive - Extropic Thoughts

USA Life Expectancy Hits New High

Claims about falling life expectancy are incorrect but population fears remain ungrounded

Jul 16 •

May 2024

Failures of Nerve and Imagination

How should we think about the probability that we will be able to revive biostasis patients and other futuristic propositions?

May 28 •

April 2024

Limits of Limits to Growth

The fatal flaws in Malthusian thinking

Apr 3 •

March 2024

Remembering Vernor Vinge

The Singularity, aliens, and the future of creativity

Mar 23 •

Scarcity or Abundance? Place Your Bets

Fantasies of doom and measures of abundance

Mar 14 •

February 2024

The Making of a Small World

Fiction (satire) by Mike Perry

Feb 24 •

R Michael Perry

Peak Oil Hysteria

Understanding production and reserves and why we will never run out of oil

Feb 15 •

Transhumanism does not require immortality

True Transhumanism part 4

Feb 8 •

Transhumanism: Critical rationalism, not omniscient reason or scientism

True Transhumanism Part 3

Feb 4 •

January 2024

Life is Getting Better: Why Don’t We Believe it?

The persistent gap between reality and perception

Jan 20 •

December 2023

Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy

My 1989 essay with current thoughts

Dec 23, 2023 •

October 2023

True Transhumanism Part 2

Transhumanism is about continual improvement, not about perfection or paradise

Oct 17, 2023 •

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