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Ideally, as an arch-anarchist, I would like to go beyond the minimal-state and the market anarchy and arrive at arch-anarchy. Of course, a market anarchy would be the system with the greatest individual freedom in a Hobbesian world of scarce resources, conflicting objectives, and mutual threats. A good starting point...
This is my reading list for arch-anarchists that, although they no directly support arch-anarchy, are compatible with its ideas. 1. The Making of a Small World: a similar satirical work of fiction to Nick Bostrom's The Fable of the Tyrant-Dragon, which I have already discussed in my previous article. It...
In "arch-anarchy", already republished here, the anonymous author "A" presents some good insights into why the laws of nature should not be seen as immutable decrees that govern the universe and much less worthy of veneration. However, I would like to make my arguments. I would say that our relationship...
One of the great goals of transhumanism is to achieve immortality through science, and indeed some futurists like Raymond Kurzweil and Ian Person think we are close, citing advances like nanotechnology and mind scanning by artificial intelligence as being close to granting us this by the middle of this century....
This article aims to expand on some of the ideas in the text " arch-anarchy"(See my previous post) republished from Extropy magazine. First of all, I believe that the nation-state is doomed to fall in a few years to the decentralization of the economy, and distributed computing networks (bitcoin, smart...
By A [Editor: This article is reprinted from Extropy #5, Winter 1990. Extropy was published by The Extropy Institute] Call to Arms Down with the law of gravity! By what right does it counter my will? I have not pledged my allegiance to the law of gravity; I have learned...
by Tom W. Bell[Editor: this article is reprinted from Extropy # 2, winter 1989. Extropy was published by the Extropy institute] In the last issue of EXTROPY, co-editor Max O'Connor presented a number of powerful arguments for amoralism in his article titled "Morality or Reality?". While I share many of...