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Results of Platform Vote #1 and Adopted Sections

Results of Platform Vote #1 and Adopted Sections

January 22, 2017 Gennady Stolyarov II Comments 3 comments

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Gennady Stolyarov II


The U.S. Transhumanist Party conducted its second vote of the members and the first vote on its platform planks on January 15 through January 21, 2017. Official ballot options can be found here.

Detailed results of the voting have been tabulated here. Options were selected based on the ranked-preference method with instant runoffs.

As a result, the following sections of Article III of the U.S. Transhumanist Party Constitution were adopted.

Section I: The United States Transhumanist Party strongly supports individual privacy and liberty over how to apply technology to one’s personal life. The United States Transhumanist Party holds that each individual should remain completely sovereign in the choice to disclose or not disclose personal activities, preferences, and beliefs within the public sphere. As such, the United States Transhumanist Party opposes all forms of mass surveillance and any intrusion by governmental or private institutions upon non-coercive activities that an individual has chosen to retain within his, her, or its private sphere. However, the United States Transhumanist Party also recognizes that no individuals should be protected from peaceful criticism of any matters that those individuals have chosen to disclose within the sphere of public knowledge and discourse.

Section II: The United States Transhumanist Party abhors all racism, nativism, xenophobia, and sexism. Accordingly, the United States Transhumanist Party condemns any hostile discrimination or legal restrictions on the basis of national origin, skin color, birthplace, ancestry, gender identity, or any manner of circumstantial attribute tied to a person’s lineage or accident of birth. Furthermore, the United States Transhumanist Party strongly opposes any efforts to close national borders, restrict immigration of peaceful individuals, or deny opportunities to individuals on the basis of ethnicity, race, or national origin. The United States Transhumanist Party unequivocally condemns all demagogues who seek to segregate individuals on the basis of national origin, race, or ethnicity. In particular, The United States Transhumanist Party opposes movements describing themselves as “white nationalism”, “America First”, “race realism”, and the “alt-right” – as well as the counterparts of those movements in other countries.

Section III: The United States Transhumanist Party holds that the vast majority of technologies are beneficial to human well-being and should be enthusiastically advocated for and developed further. However, a minority of technologies could be detrimental to human well-being and, as such, their application, when it results in detrimental consequences, should be opposed. Examples of such detrimental technologies include nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, mass-surveillance systems such as those deployed by the National Security Agency in the United States, and backscatter X-ray full-body scanners such as those used until 2013 by the Transportation Security Administration in the United States. Furthermore, the United States Transhumanist Party is opposed to the deliberate engineering of new active pathogens or the resurrection of once-existing pathogens, whose spread might not be able to be contained within laboratory settings. While it is impossible to un-learn the knowledge utilized in the creation of such technologies, the United States Transhumanist Party holds that all such knowledge should only be devoted toward peaceful, life-affirming, rights-respecting purposes, going forward.

Section IV: In recognition of the dire existential threat that nuclear weapons pose to sapient life on Earth – including as a result of such weapons’ accidental deployment due to system failures or human misunderstanding – the United States Transhumanist Party advocates the complete dismantlement and abolition of all nuclear weapons everywhere, as rapidly as possible. If necessary for geopolitical stability, synchronized multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation treaties should be pursued, strengthened, and accelerated in the most expeditious manner. If, however, multilateral agreements among nations are not reached, then the United States Transhumanist Party advocates that all nuclear powers, especially the United States and Russia, should undertake unilateral nuclear disarmament at the earliest opportunity in order to preserve civilization from accidental annihilation.

Section V: The United States Transhumanist Party supports concerted research in effort to eradicate disease and illness that wreak havoc upon and cause death of sapient beings. We strongly advocate the increase and redirection of research funds to conduct research and experiments and to explore life, science, technology, medicine, and extraterrestrial realms to improve all sentient entities.

 


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3 thoughts on “Results of Platform Vote #1 and Adopted Sections”

  1. Jennifer Warren says:
    January 23, 2017 at 7:48 am

    How about this one: the United States Transhumanist party advocates the construction of a self repairing, self maintaining smart infrastructure which incorporates the distribution of energy, communications and clean potable water to every structure.

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  2. Rip Parker says:
    January 28, 2017 at 5:40 am

    Most all that you stand for is pro human, yet your title reflects plans to replace humans with technology. Why? Can you put Spirit in a can?

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    1. Gennady Stolyarov II says:
      February 13, 2017 at 12:35 am

      Greetings, Rip Parker. The U.S. Transhumanist party emphatically does not advocate replacing humans with technology, but rather advocates using technology to dramatically improve the lives of humans and other sentient entities that might emerge in the future. This involves longer (hopefully indefinitely long) lives, cures for diseases, space colonization, radical material abundance, and solutions to natural and manmade disasters, as well as sustainable resolutions to societal conflicts. Some humans in our preferred world would end up augmenting themselves with technology (i.e., becoming cyborgs) or altering their biology – but all this would be aimed toward preserving and improving the lives of those people as individuals. At no time have we advocated “replacing” any existing human beings or infringing upon their freedom to choose for themselves how to use or not to use any given technology.

      Sincerely,
      Gennady Stolyarov II,
      Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party

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