[extropy-chat] ANNOUNCE: Extropy Institute's Future

[Adrian Tymes]

The ExI is shutting down...but what is the ExI?

Is it the list?  No, the list will remain.

Is it the group of people trying to achieve a certain set of
transhumanist goals?  No, they're still trying, although they are
changing their stated objectives and means.

The Website is changing, becoming a memorial/archive.  But clearly the
ExI was far more than just its Website - and even that still has
present and future use, as a rally site for the Proactionary Principle.

Is it the drive to establish transhumanism as a respectable idea?  As
Samantha pointed out, that mission is far from even "essentially"
completed.  Even today, publically identifying oneself as a
transhumanist is more likely, in many - possibly most - places in First
World countries, to have negative consequences than positive.

So...what's shutting down?  We'll see, of course.  But this feels more
like a transformation of a still-living thing than an ending.