Our Extropian Future: Max More on AI Timelines, Life Extension, Cryonics, and the Birth of Transhumanism.

Is the AI revolution moving fast enough to save us from aging? Or are we repeating the same over-optimistic mistakes of the past? In this deep and personal conversation, Giulio Prisco sits down with Max More, a philosopher, futurist, and founding figure of the Extropian movement, to revisit the ideas that shaped modern transhumanism and assess where we stand today.

Key moments you don’t want to miss!

0:00 — The Urgency of Life Extension.
1:51 — From Extropian Mailing List to Transhumanist Pioneer.
3:49 — The AI Revolution: Renewed Optimism vs. Cautious Realism.
5:04 — Max’s View: Why Transformers/LLMs Won’t Lead to Superintelligence.
9:49 — The IT Productivity Paradox: Why Exponential Curves Don’t Last.
12:09 — The Genome Project Lesson.
17:28 — Extropian Discussions: Did They Predict Today’s AI?
20:03 — The AI Debate: Doomers, Accelerationists, and Progressives.
24:50 — The Existential Risk We All Face: The Need to Accelerate.
30:26 — The Birth of Extropy.
34:44 — Fukuyama’s \