{"id":245745,"date":"2026-10-21T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/our-extropian-future-with-max-more"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:14:11","slug":"our-extropian-future-with-max-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/our-extropian-future-with-max-more","title":{"rendered":"Our Extropian Future, with Max More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFMqUCYhJsA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our Extropian Future: Max More on AI Timelines, Life Extension, Cryonics, and the Birth of Transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Key moments you don\u2019t want to miss!<\/p>\n<p>0:00 \u2014 The Urgency of Life Extension.<br \/> 1:51 \u2014 From Extropian Mailing List to Transhumanist Pioneer.<br \/> 3:49 \u2014 The AI Revolution: Renewed Optimism vs. Cautious Realism.<br \/> 5:04 \u2014 Max\u2019s View: Why Transformers\/LLMs Won\u2019t Lead to Superintelligence.<br \/> 9:49 \u2014 The IT Productivity Paradox: Why Exponential Curves Don\u2019t Last.<br \/> 12:09 \u2014 The Genome Project Lesson.<br \/> 17:28 \u2014 Extropian Discussions: Did They Predict Today\u2019s AI?<br \/> 20:03 \u2014 The AI Debate: Doomers, Accelerationists, and Progressives.<br \/> 24:50 \u2014 The Existential Risk We All Face: The Need to Accelerate.<br \/> 30:26 \u2014 The Birth of Extropy.<br \/> 34:44 \u2014 Fukuyama\u2019s \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,12,269,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-existential-risks","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}