Hanson, Robin
- http://hanson.gmu.edu/
- Economist and polymath; inventor of "Ideas Futures" markets; allegedly open-minded and politically undogmatic. His homepage is immodest(?) and says much about him, not necessarily bad things.
Pearce, David: HedWeb
- http://www.hedweb.com/confile.htm
- Interests: how biotechnology will allow us to get rid of suffering in all sentient life (allegedly); animal rights; consciousness; psychopharmacology; and "Why does anything exist?" An attractive, thought-provoking, and many-tentacled site.
Tipler, Frank J.
- http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/
- Mathematician and originator of the "Omega Point" theory that the universe is finite, and therefore ultimately controllable in its entirety by sentients.
Yudkowsky, Eliezer
- http://yudkowsky.net/beyond.html
- Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute, author of "Friendly AI" and "Staring into the Singularity". His Web complex, "The Low Beyond", contains professional and personal writings.
