U.S. Transhumanist Party

1 week ago

Early voting on the Transhumanist Bill of Rights, Version 3.0, is now underway.

A total of 32 proposed amendments are currently under consideration to clarify various provisions and integrate the text of the Transhumanist Bill of Rights with applicable portions of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The official 7-day electronic voting period will occur from 12:01 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time on December 2, 2018, to 12:01 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time on December 9, 2018. However, votes are being accepted starting now in order to accommodate all members of the U.S. Transhumanist Party. Members have been e-mailed their ballots.

Official ballot options can be found at transhumanist-party.org/2018/12/01/tbr-3-ballot-options/.

If you are a member and have not yet received your ballot via e-mail for any reason, please let us know.

If you are not yet a member and would like to join before the official voting period starts, use our free Membership Application Form: transhumanist-party.org/membership/ ...

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2 weeks ago

We've just reached 2,000 PAGE LIKES! Thank you all for sticking with us over these last two years as the U.S. Transhumanist Party has grown. And we hope that you continue sticking with us into eternity!

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 weeks ago

Content from the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Facebook page has now been integrated into our website here: transhumanist-party.org/facebook-feed/. Posts made to the Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/USTranshumanistParty/ - will also appear on the website at the above-linked feed page. We hope that this will encourage the spread of additional content about life extension and other emerging technologies. If you have an article, video, or announcement relevant to the work of the U.S. Transhumanist Party that you would like to share, you will be able to post it on the Facebook page, and it will automatically be added to the feed on our website within an hour.

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 weeks ago

Because of member feedback during our ongoing exposure period regarding clarifying revisions to the Transhumanist Bill of Rights, we now have 28 additional proposed amendments for consideration (along with the initial 4 proposals), in order to integrate the text of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights directly into the Transhumanist Bill of Rights (instead of incorporating it by reference in Article XXV, as is currently the case), with appropriate reconciliations with existing Articles and slight modifications to accommodate the broader concept of sentient entities, and to omit some of the wording from the UN Declaration that described not rights but compulsions or duties, or was biocentric in a way that would not be compatible with the more universalist approach that recognizes the rights of all sentient entities, however originated.

If a large portion of these revisions are passed by the members, then we will have a Transhumanist Bill of Rights, Version 3.0.

Members are encouraged to take a look at the current versions of the proposals here:
transhumanist-party.org/2018/11/17/tbr-2018-exposure-period/

Members still have the ability to provide their input, and others are also able to sign up for free membership, no matter where they reside, if they wish to participate in the December 2-9 electronic vote: transhumanist-party.org/membership/. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 weeks ago

Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, has released this message on the occasion of the second anniversary of his Chairmanship.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/11/18/ustp-chairman-2nd-anniversary/

Excerpt: “It astonishes me that two years have elapsed since I became Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party on November 17, 2016. Nonetheless, in retrospect, it seems that we are living in a different epoch from the one in which I stepped into this leadership role. In this epoch, transhumanism is no longer a fringe extreme; while we are a small political party, we occupy the sensible moderate ground – the civilized center of political discourse – precisely because we reject the downward spiral of toxicity, tribalism, political violence, and zero-sum partisanship which characterizes both the Democratic and Republican Parties today. Many people beyond the historic core transhumanist constituencies ought to find our message appealing, if they only knew about the Transhumanist Party and what it actually stands for.

“While 2017 was a year of focusing on developing our now-extensive Platform, 2018 was characterized by increased outreach, more frequent events and interviews, steady membership growth (doubling our membership to 1,187 as of this writing), and the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s first foray into electoral politics under my Chairmanship.”

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 weeks ago

Due in part to some recent misrepresentations by certain media outlets regarding the factual content of the Transhumanist Bill of Rights, Version 2.0, several clarifying amendments have been put forward for member consideration during a 15-day exposure period, which will precede a 7-day electronic voting period of the members from December 2-9, 2018.

Read the proposals thus far and post your comments and suggestions here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/11/17/tbr-2018-exposure-period/

Subjects of Proposed Amendments Thus Far:

- Amendment TBR-IV. Clarification Regarding the Right to End Involuntary Suffering (Abolitionism, Not Euthanasia)

- Amendment TBR-VII. Clarification Regarding Universal Healthcare (Open-Ended and Outcomes-Oriented, Not Advocacy of “Single-Payer” Systems)

- Amendment TBR-XIX. Expansion of the Context for Universal Basic Income (Desirable Regardless of Effects of Automation on Employment)

- Amendment TBR-XXI. Additional Information Regarding the Noosphere (Definition and Clarification of Ability to Participate Using Any Level of Technology)

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1 month ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party is pleased to feature this presentation from Peter Xing, co-founder of Transhumanism Australia, an organization allied with the U.S. Transhumanist Party, from the Real Big Things Conference earlier in 2018. This video was originally published on June 13, 2018.

Peter challenges our way of thinking about death by presenting the very real prospect that living forever isn’t just a plot in Hollywood scripts. Walking us through the research developments, Peter shows living into our hundreds (or even thousands) is science non-fiction.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/11/05/health-wellness-living-forever/

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1 month ago

One day remains to donate to what may soon become the largest crowdfunding effort yet through our allied organization Lifespan.io: Dr. David Sinclair’s NAD+ Mouse Project to administer nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) to mice over longer-term time periods to determine the effects on aging and health: www.lifespan.io/campaigns/can-nmn-increase-longevity/

This fundraiser is already quite successful, but one day remains to donate. Why is it still important for life-extension supporters to donate? The more funds this project has, the more likely it is that the Sinclair lab will be able to conduct a true study of long-term longevity with these mice, keeping them around and studying them up to the maximum lifespans they are able to reach. Many life-extension supporters, including U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, hold that scientific studies of longevity should not have any arbitrary cutoff point, and lab animals should be kept alive and supported for as long as they can possibly survive. It is expensive to do this, but this is the only approach in animal studies that actually offers the kinds of insights regarding animal longevity (maximum lifespan extension) that we are interested in. The U.S. Transhumanist Party therefore encourages supporters of life extension to help this campaign reach its final $75,000 stretch goal. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

2 months ago

The Nevada Transhumanist Party offers the following brief statements of position on the ballot questions currently before Nevada voters in the 2018 General Election.

Summary
Question 1: Marsy’s Law Crime Victims’ Rights Amendment – Support
Question 2: Sales-Tax Exemption for Feminine Hygiene Products – Support
Question 3: Energy Choice Initiative – Support
Question 4: Medical Equipment Sales-Tax Exemption Amendment – Support
Question 5: Automatic Voter Registration via DMV – Oppose
Question 6: Renewable Energy Standards Initiative – Oppose

Read our reasoning for each of these positions here:
transhumanist-party.org/2018/10/22/ntp-2018-ballot-questions/

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2 months ago

Read this update from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, on his campaign as a nonpartisan candidate for the Indian Hills General District Board of Trustees in Nevada. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

2 months ago

Thank you to The Wave Chronicle for republishing Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II's presentation, "How Transhumanism Can Transcend Libertarianism, Socialism, and All Other Conventional Ideologies".
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U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party website is back online – after an outage of about 80 hours. We hope that similar errors by our website hosting service will not occur in the future, and we will be taking further steps to create redundancies in our website infrastructure.

Visit the website: transhumanist-party.org/

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 months ago

To everyone interested in joining the U.S. Transhumanist Party, here is an alternative link to the membership application form: goo.gl/forms/IpUjooEZjnfOFUMi2

We are currently suffering an ongoing website outage due to a major error by the hosting service provider. However, the membership application form linked above ought to work. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party has concluded its seven-day electronic vote on the question of endorsing Gennady Stolyarov II for the Board of Trustees of the Indian Hills General Improvement District (IHGID) in Nevada in the 2018 general election.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/09/11/ustp-stolyarov-endorsement/

Of the 43 members who voted, 100% cast their ballots in favor of endorsing Mr. Stolyarov’s candidacy. During the vote, two members requested to be independent observers and received access to the vote results. Furthermore, all of the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Officers received independent access to the vote results as well.

Accordingly, the U.S. Transhumanist Party has an endorsed candidate who will be on the ballot in the 2018 general election.

In response to this endorsement, Mr. Stolyarov issued the following statement:

“I am deeply honored by the confidence that the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s members have placed in me as a candidate for local political office. It is my view that, while U.S. federal politics is broken almost beyond proximate recourse, substantial progress can be made at the local level by persons of good will, seeking constructive solutions to everyday concerns. As my campaign statement declares, through reason, technology, and respect for property rights, we can live well and improve. If I am elected to the IHGID Board of Trustees, I will demonstrate in action that transhumanism can be an effective, everyday, mainstream system of principles and practices that, if given a chance, will produce concrete good for all persons. The transhumanists of today can become the political center of tomorrow. Negative, adversarial, and petty politics have torn our country apart, and it is time for the thinking of a new era to be forged to bring us back together in addressing universal questions and aspirations. Creating the future will take concerted, persistent efforts to ameliorate human societies and institutions at their most basic levels. But it is upon this firm foundation that a sound civil society can be built, and that civil society will then have the proper immune system to deflect those cynical manipulators of public opinion who would divide us for their transitory gain. I hope that my campaign – with good will toward my fellow residents, other candidates, the IHGID staff, and people throughout the world who have voiced their support – will become one building block in that foundation.”

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3 months ago

In this article originally published by our allies at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), Mr. Nicola Bagalà provides a poignant discussion of the suffering associated with the diseases of old age, for which contemporary geriatric medicine can only offer palliative treatments but no lasting solutions. It is imperative to correct this situation by advocating for the advancement of effective rejuvenation treatments which can not only successfully cure the diseases of old age but also reverse biological aging itself.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/09/10/failing-shell/

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

3 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party is holding an electronic vote of the membership for a seven-day period ending on 12:01 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time on Monday, September 10, 2018, on the question of whether to endorse Gennady Stolyarov II who is running and on the ballot as a candidate for the Board of Trustees of the Indian Hills General Improvement District (IHGID) in Nevada in the 2018 general election.

See the U.S. Transhumanist Party announcement of this vote and discussion of parallels between Mr. Stolyarov’s campaign statements and the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Values and Platform here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/09/02/ustp-stolyarov-vote/

See Mr. Stolyarov’s campaign page here: rationalargumentator.com/stolyarov-for-ihgid.html

Registered U.S. Transhumanist Party members as of 12:01 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time on Monday, September 3, 2018, would be able to cast their ballots on this question and will be sent their ballots via e-mail.

Because Mr. Stolyarov is the Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, we shall strive to make every effort that the voting proceeds in as transparent and independently verifiable a manner as possible. Members are free to vote for or against the endorsement, or to abstain from voting, without any adverse repercussions for any decision made or in consequence of any outcome resulting from this vote. Every member is encouraged to make an independent, informed decision on this question. Any member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party who wishes to be an independent observer of the vote results may contact Mr. Stolyarov at gennadystolyarovii@gmail.com. All independent observers must promise not to disclose the names of those who voted to the broader public, although the independent observers may be privy to those names for purposes of verification of results only (and not for purposes of using this information to influence the outcome), and with the understanding that such non-disclosure must be adhered to.

Mr. Stolyarov is officially running as a nonpartisan candidate for this nonpartisan office, and accordingly his name on the ballot cannot be accompanied by a political party designation. There are currently four candidates, including Mr. Stolyarov, running for three open positions.

Accordingly, the significance of any endorsement by the U.S. Transhumanist Party would be symbolic in nature and would serve to bring greater attention to transhumanist ideas and how they could be instantiated in everyday, nonpartisan governance and an approach that can also appeal to the broader public, as Mr. Stolyarov attempts to do in his campaign. Furthermore, now that our previously endorsed candidate James D. Schultz has ended his campaign, the prominence of the U.S. Transhumanist Party would be aided by having an endorsed candidate in the 2018 general election, especially a candidate with a realistic possibility of winning the office for which he is running. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

4 months ago

Arin Vahanian writes, "Although Transhumanism is heavily inspired by (and also inspires) advancements in science and technology, I believe the movement could also benefit from implementing cultural aspects; in particular, those from China."

Mr. Vahanian elaborates that "Although the Transhumanist movement is rather decentralized, and I believe in keeping it this way, we most definitely need unity, especially in regard to our values and objectives."

Read more of Mr. Vahanian's analysis here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/24/need-for-unity/

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

4 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party regrets to announce that our previously endorsed candidate for New York State Assembly District 2, James D. Schultz, has ended his campaign because of his effort falling short of gaining the necessary 1,500 signatures for ballot access.

On August 21, 2018, Mr. Schultz offered the following statement: “It personally pains me to come to this. My friends and I have been working hard on securing ballot access for my state assembly run on an Independent ballot. Despite our efforts we have fallen short of the minimum signatures needed to gain ballot access. Because of this and the very slim chance of a write-in effort making a difference, I am, effective immediately, dropping out of the race. We needed a minimum of 1,500 signatures to get on the ballot; we fell short with 1,239. Everyone who has helped the campaign and wished us luck, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. On our first day we only got 18 signatures. We kept on pushing hard despite the many hostile attitudes of both Democrats and Republicans.”

Despite the best intentions, Mr. Schultz’s campaign fell slightly short of the onerous ballot-access threshold established by the two major political parties in New York State. This is yet another illustration of the travesty of ballot-access laws in the United States, which act to preserve the two-party duopoly while denying Americans the genuine choice of considering innovative, creative voices that can offer true progress. This example underscores why the U.S. Transhumanist Party strongly supports reducing or eliminating these ballot-access thresholds wherever and to whatever extent possible.

Nonetheless, we express our appreciation to Mr. Schultz for his efforts and for the fact that, because of his campaign, the U.S. Transhumanist Party had an endorsed candidate in the 2018 midterm elections for over four months, between April 12 and August 21, 2018.

How shall we proceed to make a difference in the 2018 elections? Will the U.S. Transhumanist Party still be able to have a presence and an influence? Fear not – for the U.S. Transhumanist Party leadership has been discussing just this and has a proposition that will be put forth before the membership in early September 2018.

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

4 months ago

Leo Igwe announces, “A transhumanist organization, Enlightenment Transhumanist Forum of Nigeria (ETFN) also known as H+ Nigeria, has been licensed to operate in the country. Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission, the agency that is in charge of registering societies issued the license on August 7, 2018. H+ Nigeria was registered after it fulfilled all the conditions required for operation as a legal entity in the country. The objectives of the organization include the promotion of transhumanist thought and culture. The forum plans to create awareness of the radical changes and feasibility of redesigning the human condition which humanity stands to undergo through science and technology in the future.”

The U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Foreign Ambassador to Nigeria, Ojochogwu Abdul (Chogwu Abdul) is one of the founding members of the ETFN. We wish them great success in spreading transhumanist principles and discourse in Nigeria and beyond!

Read more here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/20/etfn-registered/

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4 months ago

“Shattered” is a print by Dr. Laura Katrin Weston, a.k.a. Katrin Brunier, which depicts how the forces of ruin can lead once-ornate and beautiful things to become eroded and deteriorated. This process, unfortunately, afflicts human organisms and minds as well, causing much of value to be lost or at least faded with time. Even with age, there remain in everything and everyone traces of the former splendor that can yet potentially be reclaimed – if humanity reconsiders its priorities and decisively commits to the war on ruin, including the quest to overcome aging and death.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/18/shattered/

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

4 months ago

The United States Transhumanist Party continues to invite independent or nonpartisan candidates for elected office who seek our endorsement.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/14/ustp-invites-candidates/

If you share our values and are not running on behalf of another political party, e-mail Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II at gennadystolyarovii@gmail.com to apply.

In your e-mail, please include (i) your name; (ii) the office you are running for; (iii) a description of your platform and/or the goals of your candidacy; and (iv) why you seek the endorsement of the U.S. Transhumanist Party.

If you do not wish to run yourself but would wish to recommend other candidates to our attention, please, likewise, send an e-mail.

Again, the candidates we will consider endorsing must not be running on behalf of any other non-transhumanist political party. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

4 months ago

"How to Create a Mind" (2012) by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil sets forth a case for engineering minds that are able to emulate the complexity of human thought (and exceed it) without the need to reverse-engineer every detail of the human brain or of the plethora of content with which the brain operates. Kurzweil persuasively describes the human conscious mind as based on hierarchies of pattern-recognition algorithms which, even when based on relatively simple rules and heuristics, combine to give rise to the extremely sophisticated emergent properties of conscious awareness and reasoning about the world. How to Create a Mind takes readers through an integrated tour of key historical advances in computer science, physics, mathematics, and neuroscience – among other disciplines – and describes the incremental evolution of computers and artificial-intelligence algorithms toward increasing capabilities – leading toward the not-too-distant future (the late 2020s, according to Kurzweil) during which computers would be able to emulate human minds.

Read Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II’s review of “How to Create a Mind” here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/13/review-create-mind/

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4 months ago

In this article originally published by our allies at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), Mr. Nicola Bagalà makes a persuasive case for optimism regarding the role of technology in the future. While the future will certainly have problems as well, technological progress – including progress in greatly increasing human health and longevity – can only contribute to solutions and improved quality of life. It is time to reject defeatism and build the future we wish to inhabit.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/12/life-extension-improve/

Excerpt: “This is my answer to anyone who argues that longer lives would mean more time spent in an increasingly worsening world: The data simply don’t support this claim. At this point, a convinced pessimist would start throwing news items at me: world politics, climate issues, the refugee crisis, etc. I’m not denying the existence of these problems, nor that they may well have the potential to cause serious trouble if left unchecked; but their existence doesn’t mean that the world is getting worse. It only means that it is not getting better all at once; the state of human affairs isn’t improving at a uniform rate, but if you look at the general trend, you’ll see that it’s going up, with crests and troughs. Extrapolating from this general trend, it’s sensible to believe that things are likely to continue improving, but we cannot take for granted that things will get better of their own accord. That would be just as wrong as focusing only on the troughs in the graph and conclude that they signify that things are inevitably going to go downhill.”

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4 months ago

Meet Sophia, the latest robot from Hanson Robotics. She will be attending (and performing!) at RAAD Fest 2018 in San Diego, CA, during September 20-23, 2018.

The U.S. Transhumanist Party encourages our members to attend RAAD Fest 2018, where we will have our own conference room, and technological marvels such as Sophia the Robot, as well the visionaries who make these technological advances possible, will be present. Over the coming weeks we hope to offer other videos highlighting some of the key features of this unique gathering in furtherance of the Revolution Against Aging and Death.

Watch the video of Sophia here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/10/sophia-video/

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4 months ago

Ariel VA Feinerman interviews Elizabeth (Liz) Parrish, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Advocacy Advisor and CEO of BioViva, regarding her company’s new role as a data-collection and analysis firm, which will provide insights regarding experimental treatments offered by partner clinics that participate in the Integrated Health Systems (IHS) network. Liz provides insights regarding what it takes for experimental results to be translated into clinical practice – an endeavor in which BioViva is coming to play an important role.

We thank Ariel for providing insightful commentary and original interview questions that elicit new ideas and directions to explore.

Read the interview here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/06/feinerman-parrish-interview/

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4 months ago

Destructive climate change is no longer a hypothesis or mere possibility; rather, the empirical evidence for it has become apparent in the form of increasingly frequent extremes of temperature and natural disasters – particularly the ongoing global heat wave and major wildfires occurring in diverse parts of the world. In each individual incident, it is difficult to pinpoint “climate change” as a singular cause, but climate change can be said to exacerbate the frequency and severity of the catastrophes that arise.

However, the historically proposed solutions to the problems of climate change have often been highly counterproductive. The U.S. Transhumanist Party seeks to change this. We have a preliminary list of technologically oriented solutions that are developed subject to two essential constraints:

Constraint 1. The solutions may not result in a net detriment to any individual human’s length or material quality of life.

Constraint 2. The solutions may not involve the prohibition of technologies or the restraint of further technological progress.

We invite our readers to contribute additional solutions by commenting on this page: transhumanist-party.org/2018/08/05/technological-solutions-climate-change/

If humanity solves the problems of deleterious climate change, it can only be with the mindset that solutions are indeed achievable, and they are achievable without compromising our progress or standards of living. We must be neither defeatists nor reactionaries, but rather should proactively accelerate the development of emerging technologies to meet this challenge by actualizing the tremendous creative potential our minds have to offer. ...

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4 months ago

In this set of short stories originally published by our allies at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), Nicola Bagalà illustrates through convincing scenarios of possible futures why we should take seriously research and activism into rejuvenation biotechnology. It may make the difference between our own survival and flourishing into the indefinite future, or the painful suffering and demise that currently accompany old age.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/30/choose-your-own-story/

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4 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party is pleased to publish this in-depth interview by Yuri Deigin of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Anti-Aging Advisor. Herein Dr. de Grey offers original, in-depth insights regarding the current state of research and public opinion regarding the pursuit of advances in rejuvenation biotechnology that will hopefully achieve significant life extension, one of the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Core Ideals, within our lifetimes.

The English-language version of the interview was first published by one of the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Allied Organizations, the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF).

transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/30/de-grey-deigin-interview/

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4 months ago

R. Nicholas Starr writes, “In Zoltan Istvan’s most recent article he presents, in my opinion, a misguided argument on how the transhumanist movement is breaking from its libertarian roots and morphing into a hard-left socialist agenda. When did this partisan prerequisite appear, and how has the party changed?

“Zoltan Istvan’s sensational 2016 Presidential campaign brought a lot of attention to transhumanism. If it weren’t for his dramatic tour across America in a coffin bus, preaching about immortality, morphological freedom, and other transhumanist virtues, we would have never attracted the large diversity of members to the party we have today. With the vision of using science and technology to improve the human condition, we have come together to lift humanity up, not to pull it to the left or right. To bring this vision to life, we need our leadership to embrace and act on the input of all members, not just the libertarian progenitors. This is something that current transhumanist party chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, the person Istvan himself selected to lead the party as he made his departure, has done a great job with.”

The U.S. Transhumanist Party has published this perspective from R. Nicholas Starr as part of the ongoing discussion about the interaction of transhumanism with other ideological frameworks, such as libertarianism and socialism. Prior perspectives in this discussion include Zoltan Istvan’s article, “Transhumanism is Under Siege from Socialism“, and B.J. Murphy’s response, “Why the Transhumanist Movement Needs Socialism“. The U.S. Transhumanist Party remains committed to the principle of transpartisanship, which means we will neither embrace any conventional political ideology, nor distance ourselves from people who hold such ideologies but wish to constructively contribute to our endeavors. Nonetheless, our inextricable embeddedness in the world of contemporary political discourse does render unavoidable the discussion of these ideologies and any logical relationships and tensions. It is hoped that such discussions can proceed in a constructive manner whereby various perspectives can be expressed and perhaps result in some creative, unconventional solutions that would further expand our movement, rather than fracturing it, and establish grounds for fruitful collaboration on endeavors that advance the next great era of our civilization.

Do you agree or disagree with Mr. Starr’s article? Post your thoughts in the Comments section of our website after reading the article linked below.

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

5 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party is pleased to announce that any member who joins us for free via our online application form will also be eligible to receive discounts on procedures from AmpliCell Medical, one of our Allied Organizations, located in the Los Angeles area and specializing in regenerative medicine and stem-cell therapies.

Read more here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/22/amplicell-discounts/

Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Now the free membership comes with additional benefits, such as the “Tips for Advancing a Brighter Future” document and the discounts from AmpliCell Medical. We expect that the opportunities available to our members will only increase over time. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

5 months ago

From Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party: “Graceful” is a watercolor painting by Dr. Laura Katrin Weston, a.k.a. Katrin Brunier, the original exemplar which I received in November 2017 due to my donation to the successful MouseAge crowdfunding campaign by Lifespan.io.

This vibrant watercolor image of a hawthorn tree in bloom illustrates that beauty and longevity are indeed compatible. Hawthorn trees can live for up to 700 years – another demonstration that there are no insurmountable obstacles to this kind of graceful longevity. Science and technology must, however, advance, to enable us to maintain vitality for centuries to come.
transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/22/graceful/

You can find more work by Dr. Laura Katrin Weston at the Katrin Brunier Gallery - www.katrinbrunier.com/ - an Ethical Investment-Grade Art Gallery for the Neo-Renaissance Era (see its Instagram page - www.instagram.com/katrinbrunierart/). Proceeds from art sales at the Katrin Brunier Gallery will go to support causes such as medical research and conservation.

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5 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party has opened its General Discussion Thread for the Third Quarter of 2018. Post your thoughts at the following URL: transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/20/3q-2018-general-discussion/

The purpose of this post is to facilitate member comments pertaining to transhumanism and the U.S. Transhumanist Party, which might not specifically fit the subjects of any other post or article on the U.S. Transhumanist Party website. This is the place for members to offer suggestions or converse about any areas of emerging technologies and their political, moral, societal, cultural, and esthetic implications.

The U.S. Transhumanist Party will endeavor to open one of these general comment threads per quarter. This comment thread pertains to the months of July, August, and September 2018.

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5 months ago

An excellent new overview by Arin Vahanian of both practical and moral reasons to support life extension. This article provides commentary from economic, societal, and ethical standpoints while responding to common objections.

“’I wish I could live 10 to 20 years less,’ said no one ever. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t want to live at least a few more years of a healthy, active life. Yet, incredibly, there appears to be some controversy about the topic of life extension. Specifically, there seems to be some pushback from critics, who have attacked life extension as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘harmful,’ cite overpopulation and resource constraints, and in turn paint doomsday scenarios that would occur if human beings were to live longer lives.”

“With this article, I hope to begin a discussion to eventually lay this controversy to rest, as well as assuage any concerns the general public may have about the growing life-extension movement. For the desire to live longer and healthier is not only natural to the human condition, but I believe it is one of the noblest goals for human beings to strive for.”

Read more here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/19/case-for-life-extension/

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5 months ago

The U.S. Transhumanist Party encourages its members to participate in the Longevity Film Competition, organized by the SENS Research Foundation, Healthy Life Extension Society, and International Longevity Alliance. The more original attempts exist to convey to the general public the feasibility and desirability of indefinite life extension, and to dispel common misconceptions about it, the sooner we will have the critical mass of public support needed to bring about this most vital goal.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/15/longevity-film-competition/

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5 months ago

Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party:

My Fourth Enlightenment Salon on July 8, 2018, featured some of the widest-ranging conversations yet during my gatherings. Bill Andrews, John Murrieta, and Bobby Ridge joined me to discuss developments and ideas that will take multiple videos to properly convey.

Here are just some of the topics of conversation:

- The U.S. Transhumanist Party’s recent milestone of 1,000 members and what this portends for outreach toward the general public regarding the meaning of transhumanism and the many ways in which emerging technologies help make life better.
- The new channel – Science-Based Species (www.youtube.com/channel/UCJrFf3cUNFf2qjrgKQKu5FQ) launched by Bobby and John to spread basic knowledge about transhumanism, key thinkers in the movement, and advances on the horizon.
- How today’s technologies to assist the disabled are already transhumanist in their effects, and how technologies already in development can liberate humans from disability altogether. John Murrieta’s story is one of transhumanism literally saving a life – and one of the most inspiring examples of how transhumanism translates into human well-being now and in the future.
- Why genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are mostly good for you, and most negative perceptions of GMOs should really just be directed at the corporate practices of one company but not genetic modification as a whole.
- Why artificial sweeteners also should not be maligned and will not harm you.
- What the scientific evidence suggests regarding the impact of caloric restriction in humans and other primates.
- What is the desired role of artificial intelligence in politics?
- Are democracy and transhumanism compatible?
- What are the ways in which voting and political decision-making can be improved relative to today’s disastrous two-party system, and what are the areas of life that need to be separated and protected from politics altogether?

There were many more informal discussions over pizza, fruit, coffee, and chocolates, including several of the Mozart variety. I am pleased to have concluded yet another gathering in emulation of the aims of the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment and its aspirations to connect various fields of human knowledge and endeavor and search for truth within a refined setting. Let us hope that the Enlightenment Salons catch on once more in the 21st century! ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

5 months ago

On July 7, 2018, the United States Transhumanist Party finally reached its major milestone of 1,000 members. The U.S. Transhumanist Party collects extremely limited information on its members as a way of respecting their privacy. However, it is still possible to derive some general, aggregated insights from overall membership data without compromising any individual member’s privacy. The U.S. Transhumanist Party makes such aggregated data available for the purposes of providing insights as to the composition of the largest transhumanist political organization in the world, which may indirectly (though not precisely) shed insights into the composition of the broader transhumanist movement – at least in terms of identifying where transhumanists tend to be concentrated and areas where the movement is making inroads, as well as continued challenges in reaching certain areas and demographics.

As such, we hope that you will find interesting the new brief compilation, “The U.S. Transhumanist Party’s First 1,000 Members: An Aggregate Demographic Analysis” -
transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/08/first-1000-members/

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5 months ago

If you like this page but have not yet become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, please sign up here: transhumanist-party.org/membership/. We are just 4 members away from reaching 1,000! ...

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5 months ago

Arin Vahanian writes, "While it might not be the first organization many people think of when they think about Transhumanism, and while its products are not nearly as revolutionary as Google’s, it would be unfair to not also include Toyota among the firms most responsible for spreading the values of Transhumanism. The main reason why I believe this to be the case is related to the Japanese art and science of continuous improvement, called Kaizen."

Read more here:
transhumanist-party.org/2018/07/05/toyota-transhumanist-company/

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5 months ago

Life extension is indeed becoming more prominent and attracting more supporters with time. Four years ago I was advocating for MILE – the Movement for Indefinite Life Extension – to receive 8,000 likes on Facebook. Recently MILE exceeded 29,000 likes. The U.S. Transhumanist Party did not even exist four years ago. Now it has over 1,730 likes on Facebook and nearly 1,000 members. (We are only 10 short; get us there by signing up for free: transhumanist-party.org/membership/.) Societal and even political acceptance of prolonging human lifespans through science and technology is slowly growing – although not as fast as we advocates would like – but it is helpful to step back a bit and gain a bigger-picture historical perspective regarding our current situation and its prospects. ...

U.S. Transhumanist Party

5 months ago

A new featured virtual-reality art project – Wump VR – with commentary by Emanuel Iral, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Director of Visual Art.

Excerpt: “Wump VR simplifies and transforms the human experience into what might as well be an alien dream. Each life state is defined by the visual aesthetics and interactions the user encounters as they progress through the experience. The user’s body changes and morphs through each stage, granting new modes of interaction with the environment.”

As virtual-reality technologies develop, possibilities grow for art that interacts with the user. Read more about the Wump VR project, originated by designers Vladimir Storm and alpha_rats, here:
transhumanist-party.org/2018/06/30/wump-vr-vladmir-storm-alpha-rats/

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5 months ago

Arin Vahanian, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Director of Marketing, writes:

“As incredulous as it may seem, I have had numerous people ask me why I support research and funding for reversing the aging process.

“The usual arguments against stopping or slowing aging are that there is some sort of natural process or natural order of things, and that human beings shouldn’t be ‘playing God.’

“In this short article, I would like to present my personal views on aging and why I believe it is perfectly natural, and in fact, desirable, for human beings to want to overcome this limitation, or at least, slow it down.”

Read more here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/06/29/case-for-reversing-aging/

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6 months ago

C.H. Antony writes, “I agree that an entirely biological existence is not only a seriously limiting factor in our future development, but also something we are destined to outgrow and will do so. However, I would say that my ideal manifestation of this is a seamless combination of man and machine.”

Read more here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/06/24/soul-digital-or-analogue/

While Mr. Antony uses the notion of a “soul”, his thoughts are actually highly similar to those articulated by Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, on the concept of I-ness in his 2010 essay, “How Can *I* Live Forever? What Does and Does Not Preserve the Self” - rationalargumentator.com/issue256/Iliveforever.html

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6 months ago

Filmmaker Duarte Baltazar of Utopian Focus has made available the “I Am Transhuman” T-Shirt for sale on Amazon.com, in an effort to fund the creation of further documentary films about the transhumanist movement. The U.S. Transhumanist Party offers this announcement to its members as another possibility for raising public awareness of transhumanism as well as spreading the expression and hashtag #IAmTranshuman, part of the Transhuman Present project.

Find out more here: transhumanist-party.org/2018/06/25/i-am-transhuman-t-shirt/

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6 months ago

“Despite what you may have heard, Transhumanism isn’t about becoming a machine; it’s about becoming a better human being.”

Arin Vahanian makes an impassioned case for why he is a transhumanist and why the values of transhumanism are not fringe at all – but rather at the core of seeking better lives for all humans, enabling them to actualize their potential and become free of debilitating suffering and disease.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/06/24/why-i-believe-in-transhumanism/

Mr. Vahanian writes, “Since joining this movement, I have been struck by how optimistic, open-minded, and welcoming everyone has been to me. I’ve been accepted with open arms, and people have gone out of their way to help me. It’s a tight-knit community full of passionate, intelligent, and dedicated people who want to work on resolving problems that plague humanity. What could be a more noble purpose?”

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U.S. Transhumanist Party

6 months ago

From Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party: “Squeak” is a print by Dr. Laura Katrin Weston, a.k.a. Katrin Brunier, the original exemplar of which I received in November 2017 due to my donation to the successful MouseAge crowdfunding campaign by Lifespan.io.

It is fitting for a project on mouse longevity to involve at least one image of mice – creatures whom life has unfortunately dealt a bad hand, due to their short lifespans (only 3 years for even long-lived mice in the absence of medical intervention), difficulty in getting along with humans, and unnecessary attrition due to disposal practices after lab experiments. “Squeak” invites the viewer to appreciate mice a bit more; if we can extend their lives significantly, we stand a decent chance of achieving dramatic extension of our own lifespans. Perhaps we can also give some of the mice a break by using photographic markers of aging in experiments, as the MouseAge project seeks to do.

Here, the mice are depicted scurrying along a narrow circular path. The golden circle, with rays emanating outward represents perhaps the great hope that these creatures unknowingly provide to us. One may wonder, as I have done over many months of reflecting on this work, whether these are mutant, two-tailed mice, or whether they each just have their ordinary curly tails, and the track along which they move might simply be painted in the same colors and textures as their tails. (Well, in actuality it is indeed painted that way!) Mutant or not, these mice are rather extraordinary in having become emblems of a species that has added much to our understanding. Unlike most of their brethren to date, these mice have earned their extreme longevity through Laura Katrin Weston’s brush.

transhumanist-party.org/2018/06/23/squeak/

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