#Libertarianism

5 entries tagged Libertarianism.

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Max More Max More is a British-born philosopher who coined the term extropy, founded the Extropy Institute and the libertarian-transhumanist movement of the 1990s, and later ran the Alcor cryonics foundation.
Timothy May Timothy May was a former Intel physicist who wrote 'The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,' cofounded the cypherpunks mailing list, and devised the BlackNet thought experiment.

Seasteading Institute The Seasteading Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cofounded in 2008 by Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman (grandson of economist Milton Friedman) to establish autonomous, sovereign floating cities on the ocean as a physical instantiation of the sovereign-individual thesis, which pursued a floating-city project in French Polynesia before the territorial government cut ties in 2018.

Extropianism Extropianism is the libertarian transhumanist movement founded by Max More in the late 1980s around the Extropy Institute and its 1990s mailing list, the seedbed from which Nick Bostrom's longtermism, the rationalist community, and parts of the cypherpunk and cryptocurrency worlds emerged.
The Californian Ideology The Californian Ideology is the 1995 essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron diagnosing the fusion of San Francisco hippie counterculture with free-market neoliberalism and technological determinism in 1990s Wired-era tech culture.