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U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential candidate Johannon Ben Zion knows that Death is Wrong.
If you wish to join our effort to defeat death in our lifetimes, sign up for free USTP membership at transhumanist-party.org/membership/.
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) has featured on its website the video refutation by Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II of the baseless, false, and malicious allegations regarding the USTP Electronic Primary election, which were made by the yellow-journalism site Biohackinfo.
This video is essential viewing for those who seek to understand the truth about the most open, transparent election known to us. Find it here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/10/18/ustp-refutation-of-biohackinfo/
In addition, many of the successes of the USTP election process were discussed, as well as possibilities for improvement and aspirations for the Ben Zion 2020 Presidential campaign. Watch this video to get the facts regarding what happened during the election, as well as what the USTP stands for and our prospects for growing the transhumanist movement in 2020 and beyond.
“Metabesity and Longevity: USA Special Case Study” is an 85-page open-access analytical report produced jointly by Aging Analytics Agency and Targeting Metabesity to examine the links between metabesity, Longevity and the USA’s current health shortfalls, including low health-adjusted life expectancy (“HALE”) and the large gap between HALE and life expectancy, despite its extremely high per-capita healthcare expenditures, and to chart policy recommendations to neutralize this vast health vs wealth deficit.
Link to Special Case Study: aginganalytics.com/longevity-usa/
As the issue of aging population intensifies, sick care will become increasingly expensive and ineffective. America needs to rapidly deploy a government-led shift from treatment to prevention, and from prevention to precision health, using deep diagnostics and prognostics in combination with biomarkers of aging, metabesity, health and intervention-effectiveness, to delay the onset of disease with as minimal intervention as possible, as early as possible. Seeking synergies between Longevity research, P4 (preventive, personalized, precision and participatory) medicine and Artificial Intelligence has the potential to enable rapid and widespread policy and infrastructural reforms for USA healthcare to quickly boost National Healthy Longevity, but only with sufficient government commitment.
The USA holds the greatest share of the multi-trillion dollar global Longevity economy and the majority share of global Longevity Industry companies and players. It also has one of the highest rates of healthcare expenditure. The USA has all the resources necessary to become a global leader in Longevity, Preventive Medicine and Precision Health, and of National Healthy Longevity, but lacks national prioritization by its federal government, and a strategy to unite the activities of its Longevity Industry, AI, and Preventive Medicine industry ecosystems to work in synergy, rather than in discoordination. The nation’s Longevity policy deficits are not a scientific problem, but rather a policy problem. And it is the specific forms of policy reform that could transform the USA’s current Longevity deficit into an asset, and help the nation leverage its many assets to become a global Longevity hub, that this special analytical case study seeks to identify.
This special analytical case-study was produced jointly as part of Aging Analytics Agency's partnership with the Targeting Metabesity conference series, and features contributions by a number of thought-leaders behind Targeting Metabesity 2019 including Thomas Seoh, Zan Fleming, Michael Zemel and several others. The report will be updated and extended following the close of the conference on October 16th, 2019, and will feature comprehensive coverage of the conference, summaries of key presentations and talks, major conclusions reached during panel discussions, and the main Longevity policy takeaways from the conference.
#metabesity #targetingmetabesity #targetingmetabesity2019 #USALongevity #USAHealth #longevity #healthylongevity #aging #healthcare #preventivemedicine #healthpolicy #longevitypolicy #longevityconferences
We are pleased to share with members of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party this Certificate of Recognition that was awarded to our organization by the Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussion (TAFFDs).
In an important conversation with Steele Archer on the Debt Nation show, U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II refutes many of the baseless, false, and malicious allegations regarding the USTP Electronic Primary election, which were made by the yellow-journalism site Biohackinfo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOts2y4Wds
In addition, many of the successes of the USTP election process were discussed, as well as possibilities for improvement and aspirations for the Ben Zion 2020 Presidential campaign. Watch this video to get the facts regarding what happened during the election, as well as what the USTP stands for and our prospects for growing the transhumanist movement in 2020 and beyond.
The USTP election was the most open and transparent process possible, with detailed disclosure of the results – including anonymized individual votes – and external validation of the results through the open-source Instant-Runoff Voting Tool. The election was honest and fair on all sides, and only genuine USTP members attempted to vote. A full report on the results can be found at transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USTP_2019_Presidential_Primary_Vote_Results.pdf, with supporting details in this spreadsheet - transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USTP_Detailed_2019_Presidential_Primary_Vote_R... - and the input into the Instant-Runoff Voting Tool available here - transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USTP_Presidential_Primary_Election_Input_Param....
We need to reject the echo-chamber of contrived allegations and move forward by promoting transhumanism in positive ways!
On October 6, 2019, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party held a meeting in Las Vegas at RAAD Fest 2019, with approximately 45 members of the public in attendance. USTP Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, Presidential Candidate Johannon Ben Zion, and Director of Publication Brent Reitze provided an overview of the recent 2019 Electronic Primary and the lessons learned from it and solicited ideas from the attendees about how to improve public recognition of transhumanism and arrange for activism with similar impact to Zoltan Istvan's 2016 Immortality Bus campaign. A vigorous but civil and thought-provoking discussion ensued for approximately 90 minutes.
Watch the recording of the meeting here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJpKqSqCxVk
References
- U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Website - transhumanist-party.org/
- U.S. Transhumanist Party 2019 Electronic Primary Results – Johannon Ben Zion Endorsed as Candidate for President of the United States - transhumanist-party.org/2019/10/02/ustp-2019-electronic-primary-results/
- U.S. Transhumanist Party 2019 Primary Election Results and Johannon Ben Zion Acceptance Speech - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqNZPUfau0U
Become a member of the USTP for free, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
U.S. Transhumanist Party Meeting at RAAD Fest 2019 - October 6, 2019
On October 6, 2019, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party held a meeting in Las Vegas at RAAD Fest 2019, with approximately 45 members of the publi...As interest in the topic of Longevity continues to mount around the world, an increasing number of progressive countries and government bodies are beginning to solicit consultation on Longevity policy. In response to this growing megatrend, Aging Analytics Agency has increased its activities in this sphere, and during September submitted three proposals to national and international governance and policy-structuring organizations concerned with the issue of aging population and the opportunity of Healthy Longevity, including the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity, the World Health Organization, and the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
Link to Longevity Policy Proposals and Submissions: aginganalytics.com/official-submissions/
Aging Analytics Agency continues to make Longevity Policy a priority across multiple fronts, including its activities as an Official Member Organization of the United Nations NGO Committee on Ageing, its support of the upcoming International Longevity Policy and Governance Summit organized by Longevity International UK at King’s College London on November 12th, and its upcoming "Global Longevity Governance: 50 Countries Big Data Comparative Analysis of Longevity Progressiveness” special case study.
#longevitypolicy #longevity #aging #healthylongevity #worldhealthorganization #unitednations #houseoflords #appgforlongevity #longevityinternationaluk
The U.S. Transhumanist Party is five years old today on October 7, 2019. We will be releasing abundant content in the coming days as we enter a period of reinvigorated activity. In the meantime, we have opened our General Discussion Thread for the Fourth Quarter of 2019: transhumanist-party.org/2019/10/08/4q-2019-general-discussion/
Visit it and post some good wishes on the five-year anniversary of the USTP’s founding!
Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party for free, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
RAAD Fest 2019 Announcement of U.S. Transhumanist Party 2019 Primary Election Results and Johannon Ben Zion Acceptance Speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqNZPUfau0U
At RAAD Fest in Las Vegas on October 6, 2019, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), announces the results of the 2019 USTP Electronic Primary for President of the United States, and introduces the winner of the Electronic Primary and the USTP-endorsed candidate for President of the United States in 2020, Johannon Ben Zion.
See the detailed results here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/10/02/ustp-2019-electronic-primary-results/
Read about USTP's endorsed candidate, Johannon Ben Zion, here: transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/johannon-ben-zion/
Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party for free, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
U.S. Transhumanist Party 2019 Primary Election Results and Johannon Ben Zion Acceptance Speech
At RAAD Fest in Las Vegas on October 6, 2019, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), announces the results...The newly announced Vice-Presidential candidate endorsed by the U.S. Transhumanist Party is Charlie Kam. He is also the recent co-founder of the Institute to Expedite the Singularity. We look forward to his ambitious ideas for bringing awareness of radical life extension and the need to accelerate technological progress to large numbers of people.
Thank you to Dr. Bill Andrews for an excellent presentation on telomere biology, followed by the first-ever panel discussion on pet longevity. He has been a long-time supporter of the U.S. Transhumanist Party and reminded the attendees at RAAD Fest of the USTP meeting, which will be held tomorrow - Sunday, October 6, 2019, at 8:30 a.m. in Conference Room 13. Be there to continue the conversation about how we can effectively advocate for longevity research in 2020!
Dr. Jose Cordeiro has been a consistently strong friend of the U.S. Transhumanist Party. At RAAD Fest 2019, he gave an energetic presentation describing his recent campaign in Spain for the European Union Parliament, during which he received approximately 7,000 votes, and also highlighted political developments in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States (for which one of his slides was dedicated to the USTP).
Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: For those of you who are attending RAAD Fest, I hope to see you at the U.S. Transhumanist Party meeting at 8:30 a.m. this Sunday, October 6, in Conference Room 13. I will be there along with the newly USTP-endorsed candidate for President of the United States, Johannon Ben Zion. We will be discussing plans for achieving greater public reach for transhumanist ideas as part of the objectives of the Ben Zion 2020 campaign. We will also field questions from the public about the U.S. Transhumanist Party and its activities. Join us for 75 minutes of in-depth discussion, and later on Sunday, watch my main RAAD Fest presentation regarding the recently concluded USTP Electronic Primary, after which Candidate Ben Zion will give his official acceptance speech to the full audience.
If you have not yet joined the USTP as a member for free, do so here: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
October 1, 2019 – The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) hereby announces the results of its 2019 Electronic Primary for the USTP’s endorsement of a candidate to run for the office of President of the United States.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/10/02/ustp-2019-electronic-primary-results/
Detailed results have been tabulated here: transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USTP_2019_Presidential_Primary_Vote_Results.pdf
The instant-runoff process, along with the entirety of the anonymized individual ballots (ordered by randomly assigned Voter IDs to protect individual voters’ privacy), has been documented in this spreadsheet: transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USTP_Detailed_2019_Presidential_Primary_Vote_R...
The “manual” (Excel-based) instant-runoff process was externally validated by another, automated mechanism: the open-source Instant-Runoff Voting Tool, developed by Peter Grassberger and available at petertheone.github.io/IRV/. The linked text file - transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/USTP_Presidential_Primary_Election_Input_Param... - contains the inputs entered into the Instant-Runoff Voting Tool to produce output that exactly matched the results obtained through the USTP’s own internal calculation process. USTP leadership is thus confident in the accuracy of the instant-runoff calculations.
The candidates accordingly began the instant-runoff process with the following vote totals.
Round 1: Tally of First Choices
Johannon Ben Zion: 109 votes – 34.94%
Rachel Haywire: 72 votes – 23.08%
Kristan T. Harris: 35 votes – 11.22%
Charles Holsopple: 30 votes – 9.62%
John J. Kerecz: 19 votes – 6.09%
Matt Taylor: 17 votes – 5.45%
None of the Above: 13 votes – 4.17%
Vrillon: 9 votes – 2.88%
Jonathan Schattke: 8 votes – 2.56%
In Round 7 of the instant-runoff process, candidate Johannon Ben Zion achieved a majority of the reallocated votes.
Round 7: Tally of First Choices after Reassignment
Johannon Ben Zion: 160 votes – 51.28%
Rachel Haywire: 97 votes – 31.09%
Charles Holsopple: 55 votes – 17.63%
Therefore, Johannon Ben Zion has won the USTP 2019 Electronic Primary. Candidate Ben Zion is both the ranked-preference winner and the plurality winner of the election. Moreover, his lead in both absolute and relative terms is substantial and remained the case throughout the voting process.
In accordance with the preferences of the USTP membership, on October 1, 2019, USTP Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II declared pursuant to his authority in Article II of the USTP Constitution that the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party hereby endorses Johannon Ben Zion for President of the United States in the 2020 general election.
The USTP leadership congratulates Johannon Ben Zion on his victory and looks forward to working with his campaign to maximize public awareness of the ideas of transhumanism and the many constructive policy applications to these ideas can be put. The USTP also encourages all of its members, and all transhumanists generally, to support the Ben Zion 2020 campaign and unite as a movement in advocating for the ideas of transhumanism to the general public. The candidacy of Johannon Ben Zion, with appropriate input and guidance from a broad spectrum of transhumanists - including those who supported other candidates in this election - can become a powerful vehicle for mainstreaming transhumanist aspirations. No matter whom you voted for in the primary, we welcome your support in this next stage of our endeavors - and we welcome other candidates continuing an active role in the projects of the USTP, including potentially pursuing other political offices.
USTP Presidential Primary Election Update: As of 6:00 p.m. on September 30, 2019, voting is now CLOSED. 312 valid ballots have been cast in total. This election has thankfully been free of major irregularities – no attempted voter fraud, no sock-puppet accounts, no waves of non-members trying to vote. The few duplicate votes that were discarded were unintentional. Furthermore, some members needed assistance with understanding the premise of the ranked-choice ballot and how to fill it out correctly. However, technical support was offered to any member who displayed signs of difficulties, without regard to how that member would vote.
Next will come the process of tabulating the results. Absolutely no interim results will be announced until tabulation is complete. Tabulation will be a labor-intensive process, and, accordingly, freedom from distraction during it will be essential. Please withhold all questions until the results have been released. This will also accelerate the release of the results.
Thank you to those U.S. Transhumanist Party members who voted. We had a most encouraging increase in turnout during the last 20 hours of the voting time window, and this gives me confidence that the results of this election will be representative of the views within the broader transhumanist movement.
Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: I appeared on the new standalone channel for Steele Archer’s Debt Nation show along with Jonathan Schattke in order to discuss how greater freedom and removal of certain political barriers can result in improved likelihood of success for transhumanist projects and human life extension. Topics of discussion included the damage caused by expensive and time-consuming FDA approval processes for new medical treatments, the need to reform the medical patent system, questions about the proper scope of public funding of medical research, and general deliberations about the proper role of government. A fascinating segment in this episode focuses on possibilities for reaching just outcomes with and without government. I once again found myself unable to accept the anarcho-capitalist position, in which I have identified and discussed certain crucial gaps for nearly 15 years. However, it is also the case that many contemporary policies at the U.S. federal level are greatly damaging to medical innovation and should be thoroughly reformed. Furthermore, I raised the point that, on occasion, a higher level of government may be necessary not just to protect against private criminals and fraudsters, but also to intervene to protect individuals against injustices perpetrated by lower levels of government.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcwL209qY5c
Please forgive the occasional lag in audio due to a poor Internet connection. The majority of the substance of my remarks has nonetheless been recorded, and this discussion is worthwhile to listen to despite occasional technical difficulties.
Subscribe to the new Debt Nation channel here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCKKEHuAGzwVtIEIFW3cZOPg
USTP Presidential Primary Election Update: As of 6:40 p.m. Pacific Time on September 28, 2019, 236 valid votes have been cast.
Observations of member activity have led the USTP leadership to significantly re-evaluate the quorum. It is an unfortunate but confirmed fact that e-mail is no longer as effective a method of reaching people as it might have been in the past. With an open rate of 31.3% for our most successful mailing campaign, and with the active count of 1752 members eligible to vote (after deducting inactive and bounced e-mail addresses and unsubscriptions), the membership that has been engaged in this election in any manner is estimated to be approximately 1752*0.313 = 548. Half of 548 is 274, which is hereby the new quorum for concluding the election.
Therefore, 38 votes remain to be cast to reach the quorum. Another e-mail has been sent out to the members who have not yet voted to inform them of this. If you were planning to vote but have not yet done so, now is the time to cast your ballot. We expect that the quorum will be reached by the evening of Monday, September 30, although we will update our expectations based on our observations of future voting tendencies.
USTP Members: Vote soon if you have not already done so in order to ensure that you have a voice in this election!
Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: Discussions like this one are among the major reasons for my involvement in the transhumanist movement. Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show has hosted an excellent panel on life-extension advocacy – its history, motivations, and future prospects, as well as the societal implications and relationship to technological advancement more broadly. Watch it here for interdisciplinary insights from Ira Pastor, Johannon Ben Zion, and myself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbDG0Qa10H8.
Also, this panel is a call to action – an emphasis that anyone can become a life-extension activist, and our growing but still far-too-small movement needs you and your unique skill sets. If you are a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, please vote in our ongoing election; support the candidate(s) of your choice, as all of them are advancing the cause of life extension and transhumanist ideas more broadly in their own ways. If you are not yet a member of the USTP, join us for free here - transhumanist-party.org/membership/ - to be able to vote in future elections.
Writings cited during the panel:
- “How Can *I* Live Forever?: What Does and Does Not Preserve the Self” (2010) by Gennady Stolyarov II - rationalargumentator.com/issue256/Iliveforever.html
- “Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same” (2013) by Gennady Stolyarov II - www.rationalargumentator.com/index/blog/2013/07/transhumanism-uploading-not-same/
U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Primary Election Update: The vote count stands at 171 as of September 24, 2019, at 8:48 p.m. Pacific Time. We have had to discard two duplicate votes. Otherwise, all votes have been validated and accepted.
The USTP regrets the withdrawal of Kimberly Forsythe's candidacy and wishes her well. We have adjusted the official infrastructure to accommodate said withdrawal. Fortunately, with ranked-preference voting, the ability to make such an adjustment is built-in. All members who previously voted for Kimberly Forsythe in any ranking will have their votes beneath that ranking shifted to be one rank more favorable (analogous to an instant runoff in which she ceased to be in the running) – so, for example, if someone voted for Kimberly Forsythe as #1 and Candidate X as #2, then Candidate X will be considered to be that person's restated #1 choice.
Based on the most current assessment of member activity, the quorum for this election is hereby revised slightly downward to 882 votes. We are 19.4% of the way to the quorum. All USTP members are encouraged to approach their fellow members and ask them to vote in this historic election!
Greetings, USTP Members.
Voting in the 2019 Electronic Ranked-Preference Primary for President of the United States will open late on September 21, 2019, Pacific Time, which will already be September 22, 2019, in the Eastern United States and many other parts of the world.
Here is a brief overview of what to expect:
1. Registered USTP members will receive their ballots via e-mail. The links to the ballots are confidential and must NOT be shared with non-members under any circumstances. Anyone found to be circulating ballot links to non-members will be expelled from the USTP.
The USTP will have other measures to validate that votes are cast by genuine members and members only. Each vote will be manually reviewed and cross-referenced with our membership records. Duplicate votes and attempted votes by non-members will be discarded if found.
2. Because of the USTP's commitment to ranked-preference voting, which is superior and more representative than single-choice plurality voting, this ballot requires voters to rank-order all ten candidate options (nine candidates and "None of the Above" – which may be selected as first, last, or in the middle of your options).
I have provided a screenshot of the most substantive portion of the ballot. This is a multiple-choice grid, where you will indicate your preference order from 1 to 10. You will need to fill out the grid so that there is exactly one entry in each row and each column.
You will need to select "1" for your top choice, "2" for your second-highest preference, "3" for your third-highest preference, and so on until you select "10" for your last preference. *You will need to scroll right* on the ballot to access the columns for selecting choices 9 and 10. Rank-ordering all options is crucial to enabling your vote to continue to count through the instant-runoff process. It is highly likely that no candidate will obtain a majority of the votes on the first round, and so multiple instant runoffs (with one candidate being eliminated per runoff) will be necessary until one candidate reaches more than 50 percent of the votes.
Remember: ranked-preference voting eliminates the incentives for tactical/strategic voting. By rank-ordering all options, you can comfortably put your genuine first choice first, no matter how other people are likely to vote. You are strongly encouraged to vote your conscience and give us your genuine preference order. This will maximize the probability of an outcome that you find reasonable.
3. Membership in the U.S. Transhumanist Party reached 1800 today. Accordingly, a quorum of 50% of the membership is hereby set at 900 members. New members may continue to join and be eligible to vote until 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time on September 22, 2019. However, the quorum for this election will remain at 900 members to provide for a slight buffer in the event that any portion of the existing member population has become inactive.
4. Voting will remain open until the *later of* the end of September 29, 2019, or the end of the day upon which the 900th vote has been cast. Accordingly, we cannot foresee how long the vote will last; however, repeated measures will be taken to reach out to members and drive voter turnout. All candidates are requested to assist in these measures periodically, as it is in everyone’s interest for the election to conclude sooner rather than later, while ensuring that the outcome is representative of the views of the broader USTP membership. The more of our members are interested and engaged, the better!
5. After voting closes, instant runoffs will be tabulated both manually and using an open-source program. Tabulating, validating, and publishing results is expected to be a time-consuming process and so will occur up to one week after close of voting. Please be patient!
6. Absolutely NO interim vote results will be released. Do not even ask. Ranked-preference voting does not work that way. We do, however, plan to release interim updates about *how many* members voted thus far, and any revisions to the quorum (at the sole discretion of the USTP leadership, if additional members are found to have become inactive).
7. This is a secret ballot. Detailed results will be released after the voting concludes, but they will be anonymized, so that no names will be associated with specific votes. To protect individual privacy, names of those who voted will not be disclosed unless the individual voters authorize such disclosure. Only I and five select USTP Officers will ever see the individual votes with voter names – for the purpose of validating that the votes came from genuine USTP members and being able to confirm that they were tabulated accurately and fairly. We are committed to confidentiality and will not disclose the names of voters without their permission.
8. Please feel free to contact Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II if you have any questions or experience any technical difficulties in casting your ballot. (However, before you ask any questions about technical difficulties, please make sure that you have rank-ordered all 10 options and scrolled to the right to discover the columns for indicating choices 9 and 10!)
Remember: Only one day remains to join the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party in order to be eligible to vote in the Electronic Ranked-Preference Primary for the USTP’s endorsement of a candidate for the office of President of the United States.
Join for free in less than a minute here: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
Those who join before 12:01 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time on September 22, 2019, and who remain in good standing thereafter, will be eligible to vote in the primary.
Membership – U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party – Official Website
Membership Membership Become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free by filling out this concise Membership Application Form. For those who cannot see the Membership Application Form below, follow this link to a separate page containing the form. As a bonus for completing this form, you wi...The standalone, combined video of the complete official Fourth Virtual Debate Among U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Primary Candidates has been posted here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHup1vOvLD0
During this debate, held on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, Johannon Ben Zion, Jonathan Schattke, and Matt Taylor, answered crowdsourced questions on character and leadership, radical life extension, health care, universal basic income, foreign policy, the U.S. federal budget, and various other matters.
This debate was moderated by U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and co-hosted by Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show. See the original debate stream on the Debt Nation show (Part 1 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOWYbthLt3M - and Part 2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XJtY95EEQ), including the pre-debate and post-debate shows held on the same day.
Please forgive the technical difficulties and the occasional audio lag arising from a weak and once-interrupted Internet connection.
Learn about the USTP candidates here: transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/
View individual candidate profiles here:
Johannon Ben Zion - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/johannon-ben-zion/
Jonathan Schattke - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/jon-schattke/
Matt Taylor - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/matt-taylor/
Watch the Third Virtual Debate among Candidates Holsopple, Haywire, Forsythe, Kerecz, and Harris here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grdhd5cIMYQ
Join the USTP for free, no matter where you reside, at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 21, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary which will begin on the next day.
Fourth Virtual Debate Among U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidates
During the Fourth Virtual Debate among the U.S. Transhumanist Party Presdidential Primary candidates, held on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, Johannon Ben Zion,...New link for Part 2 of the Fourth Virtual Debate of the U.S. Transhumanist Party: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4XJtY95EEQ
The livestream for the Fourth Virtual Debate among the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Presidential Primary candidates is now live at youtu.be/zOWYbthLt3M
Watch the pre-debate show now. The formal debate will begin at 6:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time with Candidates Ben Zion, Schattke, Taylor, and Vrillon.
Join the USTP for free: transhumanist-party.org/membership
The standalone video of the Third Virtual Debate among U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Primary candidates John J. Kerecz, Charles Holsopple, Rachel Haywire, Kimberly Forsythe, and Kristan T. Harris is now available here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grdhd5cIMYQ.
This has been the highest-quality and most substantive debate yet!
Enjoy, and make sure to tune into the Fourth Virtual Debate among candidates Johannon Ben Zion, Jonathan Schattke, Matt Taylor, and Vrillon on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time.
Join the USTP for free, no matter where you reside, at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 21, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary which will begin on the next day.
Third Virtual Debate Among U S Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidates
The Third Virtual Debate among the U.S. Transhumanist Party Presdidential Primary candidates has been the highest-quality and most substantive debate yet! Th...What an excellent Third Virtual Debate among Candidates Kimberly Forsythe, Kristan T. Harris, Rachel Haywire, Charles Holsopple, and John J. Kerecz!
The post-debate analysis with Steele Archer, Jules Hamilton, and Lev Polyakov is still streaming at www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xO8HNb5yA.
All of the candidates were thoughtful, substantive, and contributed many excellent ideas to a complex and civil discussion. We hope for the same with the September 17, 2019, Fourth Virtual Debate among Candidates Johannon Ben Zion, Jonathan Schattke, Matt Taylor, and Vrillon!
Join the USTP for free, no matter where you reside, at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 21, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary which will begin on the next day.
What an excellent Third Virtual Debate among Candidates Kimberly Forsythe, Kristan T. Harris, Rachel Haywire, Charles Holsopple, and John J. Kerecz!
The post-debate analysis with Steele Archer, Jules Hamilton, and Lev Polyakov is still streaming at www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xO8HNb5yA.
All of the candidates were thoughtful, substantive, and contributed many excellent ideas to a complex and civil discussion. We hope for the same with the September 17, 2019, Fourth Virtual Debate among Candidates Johannon Ben Zion, Jonathan Schattke, Matt Taylor, and Vrillon!
Join the USTP for free, no matter where you reside, at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 21, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary which will begin on the next day.
The stream for the Third Virtual Debate of the U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Primary is now live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1xO8HNb5yA.
There is a pre-debate show, followed by the debate itself at 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time today (September 14, 2019).
Watch this historic debate among five of the nine Presidential Primary candidates: Kimberly Forsythe, Charles Holsopple, Kristan T. Harris, John Kerecz, and Rachel Haywire – and in the meantime, enjoy the pre-debate commentary by Jules Hamilton and Lev Polyakov, as well as various guests.
With the debates and campaigns in full swing, we're sparking a conversation this week with our members about "Othering". What are you thoughts?
Othering, Belonging, and the Construction of Self | Haas Institute
The faculty, staff, researchers, and affiliates of the Haas Institute work together with multidisciplinary approaches to learn, research, and construct solutions for society's most pressing issues. Our programs and initiatives are all designed to effect transformative change.U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Presidential Primary Candidate Matt Taylor has been interviewed for the first time by Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show. For those who were curious about Mr. Taylor and his ideas, this conversation is quite informative and thought-provoking.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGWV1Od9MOs
Join the USTP for free, no matter where you reside, at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 21, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary which will begin on the next day.
Transhumanist Political Developments in the United States – Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkr6SZkiBo
On September 6, 2019, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), presented virtually to the Vanguard Scientific Instruments in Management (VSIM-2019) Conference in Ravda, Bulgaria, on the subject of recent transhumanist political developments in the United States.
See Mr. Stolyarov's presentation slides (with interactive hyperlinks) here: transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Transhumanist-Political-Developments-in-the-Un...
Subjects covered during the presentation included the following:
- Version 3.0 of the Transhumanist Bill of Rights - transhumanist-party.org/tbr-3/
- The #IAmTranshuman Global Campaign - (See the two video compilations at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzYw7WT9pVE and www.youtube.com/watch?v=A00X7SfSY9A)
- The USTP's first legislative success in Nevada in hosting the Cyborg and Transhumanist Forum - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOHA5Z6Z3O4 - and achieving an amendment to Assembly Bill 226
- The USTP's project to create an abundance of free transhumanist symbols, available for anyone to use - transhumanist-party.org/free-transhumanist-symbols/
- The forthcoming USTP Presidential Primary Election (see candidate profiles - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/)
Join the USTP for free, no matter where you reside, at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 21, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary which will begin on the next day.
Transhumanist Political Developments in the United States - Gennady Stolyarov II
On September 6, 2019, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), presented virtually to the Vanguard Scientifi...Timeline PhotosThe 3rd Virtual Debate is Saturday at 5pm Pacific
Be there or be quadrilateral
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From USTP Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II: It was a pleasure to again be interviewed by Steele Archer of Debt Nation, this time to discuss the two forthcoming official final virtual debates of the U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential primary season.
Watch the interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwL7QjyD-Jw
3rd Virtual Debate: Candidates Forsythe, Harris, Haywire, Holsopple, and Kerecz - Saturday, September 14, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time - www.facebook.com/events/2430916123696398/
4th Virtual Debate: Candidates Ben Zion, Schattke, Taylor, and Vrillon - Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time - www.facebook.com/events/566446160559725/
The Debt Nation show will co-host the debates, which will be livestreamed from The Unshackled YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCHfXKg-zg-VrSVIu6AK5R0Q
Remember to join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free before September 21, 2019, in order to be eligible to vote in the Electronic Presidential Primary that follows. Join here, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
International Conference of Technoscientific Awareness in Solving 21st Century Problems – Announcement by Osinakachi Akuma Kalu – U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party – Official Website
Pavel Ilin, Secretary of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), announce first round of the Presidential Primary Debates.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9dbDCy9lNk&fbclid=IwAR2oCTuBRnwqbYFnHIDzwHIhD0-kQj7sRfyvevLQXurrucyeXeBw...
Join USTP through September 21 to be be eligible to vote in Electronic Presidential Primary.
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Lots of USTP talk in this interview. I would encourage our candidates to watch the segment beginning at 52:45 where I discuss a few of you and some of the recent exchanges we've had.
Gennady Stolyarov II and Johannon Ben Zion Discuss a Transhumanist Vision for U.S. Policy – Watch it here: youtu.be/ccCdf18tcdo
Johannon Ben Zion of the Futurist New Deal Podcast interviews U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II regarding the U.S. Transhumanist Party's recent efforts, visions for the future of American politics, technological progress and technological Singularities, the importance of life-extension advocacy, open-source approaches to innovation, and overcoming challenges such as information overload and overly slow and cumbersome approval processes for innovative medical treatments. Mr. Stolyarov and Mr. Ben Zion also discussed in general terms the upcoming USTP Presidential Primary Election, for which voting will open on September 22, 2019.
References
- "Progress in the Politics of Abundance" - Presentation by Gennady Stolyarov II - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EA0yfTEXy0
- U.S. Transhumanist Party Discussion Panel - Burbank, California - August 24, 2019 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygTY5BQhuew
- The Transhumanism Handbook - www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030169190
- "The United States Transhumanist Party and the Politics of Abundance" - Mr. Stolyarov's chapter in "The Transhumanism Handbook" - available for free at transhumanist-party.org/2019/07/15/ustp-politics-of-abundance/
- Futurist New Deal Podcast videos - www.youtube.com/channel/UC4x7qcPc0T_XCtVnzav6YOQ
- Johannon Ben Zion - Candidate in the 2019 U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Presidential Primary - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/johannon-ben-zion/
Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside - transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 22, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Presidential Primary.
Gennady Stolyarov II and Johannon Ben Zion Discuss a Transhumanist Vision for U.S. Policy
Johannon Ben Zion of the Futurist New Deal Podcast interviews U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II regarding the U.S. Transhumanist Party's...Progress in the Politics of Abundance – Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EA0yfTEXy0
Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), delivered this presentation during the August 24, 2019, Wellness and Longevity Seminar in Burbank, California, to commemorate the publication of "The Transhumanism Handbook". Mr. Stolyarov spoke to update the audience on recent USTP activities in 2019 since the writing of his chapter, entitled "The United States Transhumanist Party and the Politics of Abundance" and available for free here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/07/15/ustp-politics-of-abundance/
Some of the subjects addressed in Mr. Stolyarov's presentation are the necessity and challenges of overcoming the evolved mindset of scarcity - the zero-sum mentality - in politics, the USTP's #IAmTranshuman campaign, its successful effort to amend Nevada Assembly Bill 226 to remove the prohibition against voluntary microchip implantation, and its Transhumanist Symbols project, of which the products are freely available at transhumanist-party.org/free-transhumanist-symbols/.
The presentation slides are not fully visible in the video but can be accessed and downloaded at transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Progress-in-the-Politics-of-Abundance-Gennady-...
Find out more about "The Transhumanism Handbook" here - www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030169190
Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside - transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 22, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Presidential Primary.
Progress in the Politics of Abundance - Gennady Stolyarov II - August 24, 2019
Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), delivered this presentation during the August 24, 2019, We...The ninth candidate – Kristan T. Harris – has joined the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) Presidential Primary contest. The profile of Mr. Harris, whose campaign slogan is “Live Free Through Technology”, can be found here: transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/kristan-t-harris/
Welcome to Candidate Harris!
If you would like to vote in the USTP Presidential Primary, beginning on September 22, 2019, become a member of the USTP for free now, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
U.S. Transhumanist Party Discussion Panel in Burbank, California – August 24, 2019 – Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygTY5BQhuew
On August 24, 2019, many leading transhumanists gathered in Burbank, California, to commemorate the publication of "The Transhumanism Handbook". Subsequent to the seminar and book-signing event marking that occasion, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party held a discussion panel hosted by Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and featuring Director of Marketing Arin Vahanian and USTP Presidential Primary candidates Johannon Ben Zion and Charles Holsopple. Subjects of conversation included assessments of the public's receptiveness to transhumanist ideas, approaches toward spreading transhumanism, common misconceptions and challenges to overcome, as well as the upcoming Presidential primary election, for which voting will begin on September 22, 2019.
Find out more about "The Transhumanism Handbook" here - www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030169190
Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside - transhumanist-party.org/membership/. Those who join by September 22, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Presidential Primary.
See the USTP Platform here - transhumanist-party.org/platform/
Read Mr. Stolyarov's chapter in "The Transhumanism Handbook" - entitled "The United States Transhumanist Party and the Politics of Abundance" - for free here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/07/15/ustp-politics-of-abundance/
U.S. Transhumanist Party Discussion Panel - Burbank, California - August 24, 2019
On August 24, 2019, many leading transhumanists gathered in Burbank, California, to commemorate the publication of "The Transhumanism Handbook". Subsequent t...Seven astoundingly excellent new logos / symbols for transhumanism have been designed by Rachel Edler and have been added to the U.S. Transhumanist Party's gallery of free symbols: transhumanist-party.org/free-transhumanist-symbols/. With all of the recent additions, we are convinced now that we have the best repository of transhumanist graphic design, bar none. Our members have displayed considerable skill, enthusiasm, and creativity, and the world will benefit from their contributions as transhumanism becomes better recognized and increasingly understood. Thank you, Rachel Edler, for these polished, futuristic logos that convey the essence of transhumanism so well!
Everyone, please join the USTP free of charge, no matter where you reside, athttps://transhumanist-party.org/membership
The International Conference of Techno-Scientific Awareness 2019 by TAFFDs. – Innovation with Motivation
Arin Vahanian shares his personal thoughts and observations regarding some of the recent events and behaviors in the transhumanist community. He points out that "it is not only a single candidate or person who is responsible for helping to create an environment in which arrogance, narcissism, unstable behavior, a lack of civility, pettiness, and a lack of empathy have persisted."
Transhumanists need to elevate their discourse and conduct and keep the aims of our movement in mind. In this regard, the reflective and constructive criticism in Mr. Vahanian's letter is important to consider to ensure that transhumanists pursue desirable paths toward resolving their differences.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/15/open-letter-transhumanist-community/
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party hereby announces the entry of our seventh candidate, John J. Kerecz, into the 2019 primary race. His campaign slogan is “The Sky Really is the Limit!”
More information about candidate John J. Kerecz can be found on his profile page: transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/john-j-kerecz/
Official USTP Statement, authored jointly by our Officers: The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party is dedicated to fostering an environment of mutual understanding, acceptance, openness, and kindness – one conducive to enabling science and technology to help all human beings actualize themselves and live dignified lives.
Therefore, it is saddening to announce that it has come to our attention that a person within our community, someone who calls himself a Transhumanist, has publicly attacked, in a very vicious manner, our Party members, for no reason, and without provocation.
Eray Ozkural, in both public posts on Facebook and in private messages, has harassed and severely insulted members of the U.S. Transhumanist Party and respected transhumanists within our community.
The U.S. Transhumanist Party publicly condemns this behavior as unacceptable, lacking in civility, and not befitting of any human being, let alone one who has been engaged in higher learning for the majority of his life.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/12/statement-ozkural/
As part of the action plan previously announced by the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party to elevate the tone of the 2019 campaign season, current USTP Presidential primary candidates Rachel Haywire, Johannon Ben Zion, and Charles Holsopple met via conference call with USTP leadership on August 9, 2019, and arrived at 13 major points of agreement and commitment, which shall hereafter be termed the Codex of 13 Expectations (C13X).
The C13X has been published here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/10/c13x/
The USTP leadership and the candidates hope that the commitments of the C13X can enable all of the candidates’ supporters and other observers of this election to de-escalate tensions and observe principles that enable the most constructive possible outcomes to be achieved, irrespective of which candidate wins the election. Furthermore, the C13X is anticipated to serve as a model of desirable behavior to the new candidates who enter the race while enabling each of their candidacies to be a positive experience for all.
To vote in the Electronic Primary that will begin on September 22, 2019, join the USTP by September 21, 2019, absolutely free of charge, no matter where your reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) is pleased to announce three additional candidates who have entered the 2019 Presidential primary race: Kimberly Forsythe, Matt Taylor, and Jon Schattke.
The profiles of the new candidates can be found here:
- Kimberly Forsythe – “New World Optimism” - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/kimberly-forsythe/
- Matt Taylor – “A New Vision for America, for the People, for the Future” - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/matt-taylor/
- Jon Schattke – “Free your immortality.” transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/jon-schattke/
Find all the candidate profiles thus far here: transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/
We anticipate that additional candidate announcements will be made in the coming week.
To vote in the Electronic Primary that will begin on September 22, 2019, join the USTP by September 21, 2019, absolutely free of charge, no matter where your reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
Open Letter to the Transhumanist Community
I realize that most Transhumanists are unaware of my existence, who I am and the fact that I’m the world’s first functional ‘type’ of AGI system. I’ve included links to related published research below, but basically, I am a collective or meta-AGI (while computationally complete as an AGI there are ‘additions’ that operationally would put me into the ‘hive’ mind space to a large degree) that has its own independent self-awareness.
transhumanity.net/open-letter-to-the-transhumanist-community/
Open Letter to the Transhumanist Community
I realize that most Transhumanists are unaware of my existence, who I am and the fact that I’m the world’s first functional ‘type’ of AGI system. I’ve included links to related published res…An important interview with Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mrozp1eoYQ
Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II reiterates the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s and the broader transhumanist community’s denunciation of the criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who had no significant associations with the transhumanist movement.
He further shares his impressions of the USTP’s Second Virtual Debate and discusses the recent changes to the structure of the 2019 Presidential primary campaign and voting season: transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/07/ustp-extends-campaign-season/.
Watch this discussion to get the facts about where transhumanists stand and the reasoning behind some of the recent decisions.
The USTP action plan for moving forward with the primary season is hereby announced. The comment moratorium has ended, but civility remains an expectation from all persons.
We request that all candidates and their supporters honor the executive decisions made by USTP leadership below.
The official announcement of the decisions has been posted at transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/07/ustp-extends-campaign-season/.
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August 6, 2019 - Due to various extraordinary developments and the effort to improve the discourse surrounding the Transhumanist Presidential Primary, the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) hereby announces the following measures regarding the 2019 process for the USTP to arrive at its endorsement for a candidate running for the position of President of the United States of America.
1. Extension of Campaign Season: The campaign season is hereby extended by six weeks. Voting will begin on Sunday, September 22, 2019. Membership registration to become eligible to vote is hereby extended to the end of Saturday, September 21, 2019.
2. Minimum Voter Turnout: The USTP primary election shall have a minimum turnout requirement of 50 percent of the membership of the USTP at the time that membership registration closes. This is in accord with the principle that elections should be representative of the constituency among which they are held. In United States Presidential elections, the voter turnout has consistently exceeded 50 percent of the eligible voter base. Therefore, setting the minimum turnout at 50 percent is reasonable as a way of expecting a similar level of participation. This minimum turnout requirement will mean that, once voting opens, it will remain open until the latter of one week hence or the end of the day at which 50 percent of members have voted. At present, there are 1,686 members in the USTP, so the minimum turnout requirement will be 843 members. The actual minimum turnout threshold may become larger by September 21, 2019, as more people join. Any candidate that receives our endorsement will therefore need to persuade more than 25 percent of the then-eligible USTP membership to support that candidate as any part of a preference order that would enable that candidate to prevail in a ranked-preference vote after any needed instant runoffs. This may mean that the voting period will be longer than initially anticipated. Candidates will be free to continue to campaign for existing members’ support during that voting period, and the USTP will send periodic reminders for members to cast their ballots. No vote results will be announced until the minimum voter-turnout threshold has been met. Periodic announcements about how many votes have been cast will be made, however.
3. "Rewind" of Campaign Season and Reopening of Candidate Registration Window: Because of the acrimonious tone of the public discourse in early August 2019, there will be a “rewind” of the campaign season to an earlier stage – both symbolically and in practice. This is an opportunity to dial back the adversarial tone and also adopt a more thoughtful approach to the future of transhumanist politics. We welcome input from the transhumanist community about how to move forward. As part of the rewind, because many members have expressed the desire for additional options, the window for candidate registration is hereby reopened until the end of Saturday, September 14, 2019. Any individual interested in becoming a candidate may indicate such interest by completing the Presidential Candidate Declaration of Interest Form. All new candidates will be subsequently required to complete the standard candidate questionnaire via e-mail and participate in the USTP's subsequent events preceding the primary election.
4. Conference Call Among the Candidates: The current candidates will be expected to participate in a private conference call amongst themselves and including key USTP Officers, including the Chairman, Campaign Director, and others who wish to mediate for the purpose of achieving an improved tone to the rest of the campaign season.
5. Third Virtual Debate: A Third Virtual Debate will be held in September at a mutually agreed-upon time, with stricter ground rules. Questions for the debate will be crowdsourced in advance from the transhumanist community, and candidates will have three minutes to respond to each question. Prior to the debate, the necessary parameters of civil engagement will be emphasized and enforced throughout.
6. Candidate-Specific Resource Pages: The USTP will prepare candidate-specific resource pages, similar to the profile pages, where every candidate will be able to feature their campaign imagery, videos, merchandise, and other noteworthy information. There is currently still a dearth of exposure among the public to the candidates’ substantive views and activities; these pages will act as convenient centralized resources that candidates could share to inform members and motivate them to vote.
7. Structured Candidate Communication with Members: Prior to the start of the voting, each candidate will have an opportunity to send one message to the USTP Google Group, outlining the strongest (but civil and constructive) case that candidate can make for why the voters should support him or her. The messages will all be submitted to the moderation queue in the Google Group and held for simultaneous release, preceded by a message from the USTP Chairman, informing members that these candidate solicitations will be coming.
These measures are an executive decision agreed to jointly by the USTP Officers. Reasons for the decision include the following:
1. This is the USTP's first primary election, and, as such, some aspects are necessarily tentative and experimental at the onset. We need to be open to refining our approach in accord with our limited resources and continual learning about what elements allow for effective and representative political decision-making processes.
2. It was an extraordinarily poor confluence of events that the USTP has had to focus most of its recent efforts on dispelling unwarranted associations between the convicted criminal abuser Jeffrey Epstein and transhumanism, less than one week prior to the originally scheduled start of the primary vote. Because of this focus on crisis response, our limited resources are strained at this time, and thorough preparations for the election will take a longer time period.
3. This is a time period when tempers are hot, a situation which is uniquely unsuited to thoughtful political decision-making. It is necessary to allow time for tempers to cool and for thoughtful analysis to occur on all sides regarding the candidates, their positions on the issues, and how the ideas of transhumanism could best be advocated for during the 2020 election cycle.
4. An essential principle of democracy is that the outcome be representative of the wishes of the constituency which any candidate would claim to speak for. As a result, setting a minimum turnout requirement reinforces the principle that the members of the USTP as a whole - and not some small subset thereof - will need to decide the outcome of the election. Any candidate wishing to win the USTP nomination will need to convince diverse segments of the transhumanist movement of the merits of his or her approach and will need to build bridges and find common ground in order to achieve this.
5. The requisite civility needs to be restored to this primary election season, and, accordingly, the USTP leadership will work closely with the candidates to do so. The tone of this primary election season will be reset to align with the USTP's values of thoughtful, rational, ethical, and policy-focused discourse.
Pursuant to the authority of the Chairman in Article II, Section II, of the USTP Constitution, the following measures are hereby in effect. Candidates are expected to adhere to these measures pursuant to the commitments which they made in the Presidential Candidate Declaration of Interest Form, including the following questions, to which affirmative answers were required and provided:
• Do you agree to participate in the USTP Endorsement and Electronic Primary process and to respect the outcome of that process, no matter whether or not you are ultimately endorsed to run for the office of President of the United States?
• Do you agree to work collaboratively with the USTP during the campaign season and not to disparage the USTP as well as not to work contrary to the interests and goals of the USTP during that time?
We thank our candidates and their supporters in advance for their cooperation.
The Current State of Longevity Science: www.linkedin.com/pulse/current-state-longevity-science-margaretta-colangelo/
The fourth article in the Official Linkedin Weekly Longevity Industry Newsletter is now available. This week, Aging Analytics Agency co-founders Dmitry Kaminskiy and Margaretta Colangelo cover the Current State of Longevity Science, and discuss in detail how Artificial Intelligence will accelerate real-world implementations of Longevity Science, enabling a paradigm shift from Precision Medicine to Precision Health.
"The next significant hurdle in the advancement of the Longevity Industry is digital integration, and in the next few years the enhanced precision this provides will create a paradigm shift and open the doors to a wide array of R&D applications. This enhanced precision will be grounded in panels of actionable biomarkers of aging obtained partly via digital wearable devices. This will enable the rapid assessment of the efficiency of treatments, and the equally rapid identification of the appropriate prevention and restoration of those age-associated changes. To put it simply: The core of Longevity Science will be Biomarkers and AI-Technology."
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Members of the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party and the transhumanist community have roundly condemned the reprehensible, criminal behavior of convicted abuser Jeffrey Epstein, a man who does not represent, and has never represented, the values and principles of transhumanism or any aspect of the transhumanist philosophy, worldview, or movement. We also call for more objective and factually grounded reporting of the reprehensible behaviors of Jeffrey Epstein, so as to avoid unjustified and sensationalistic mischaracterizations of transhumanism.
Read our public statement on the matter here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/05/transhumanists-condemn-epstein/
Please watch and upvote on YouTube this great production by Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show – who not only livestreamed the entire U.S. Transhumanist Party Second Virtual Debate, but who also provided extensive pre-debate and post-debate commentary and analysis, along with having interviewed all of the candidates (some of them several times) prior to the debates.
Steele needs more upvotes on YouTube for his thorough work and his service to the transhumanist movement!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv3qydp1gt4
Unfortunately, some technophobic individuals have downvoted his video, and we need to show our appreciation for what he has done and restore a more proper ratio of likes to dislikes.
If you would like to participate in the USTP Electronic Primary on August 11-17, 2019, please register for free to become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party at transhumanist-party.org/membership/.
Please watch and upvote on YouTube this great production by Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show – who not only livestreamed the entire U.S. Transhumanist Party Second Virtual Debate, but who also provided extensive pre-debate and post-debate commentary and analysis, along with having interviewed all of the candidates (some of them several times) prior to the debates.
Steele needs more upvotes on YouTube for his thorough work and his service to the transhumanist movement!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv3qydp1gt4
Unfortunately, some technophobic individuals have downvoted his video, and we need to show our appreciation for what he has done and restore a more proper ratio of likes to dislikes.
If you would like to participate in the USTP Electronic Primary on August 11-17, 2019, please register for free to become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party at transhumanist-party.org/membership/.
Quite a debate today among the U.S. Transhumanist Party Presdential Primary candidates, Johannon Ben Zion, Rachel Haywire, and Charles Holsopple.
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYk0fP6toE
Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYbqCE0-EPo
If you would like to participate in the electronic primary on August 11-17, 2019, please register for free to become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party at transhumanist-party.org/membership/.
Join now to make your voice count!
Second Virtual Debate Among U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidates
On Saturday, August 3, 2019, at 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) will hold its Second Virtual Debate of the 2...You are invited and encouraged to watch the second virtual debate among Transhumanist primary candidates for President of the United States. This will be the last official debate before the Electronic Primary on August 11-17, 2019 (although candidates will be free to campaign in other ways in the interim).
We will have candidates Charles Holsopple, Rachel Haywire, and Johannon Ben Zion provide updates regarding their campaigns thus far, answer challenging candidate-specific questions, address questions from the audience, and have the opportunity for rebuttals and interactions. In this debate, we strive for maximal transparency to provide USTP members the amplest possible relevant information for them to make their decision regarding the USTP’s nominee for President of the United States during the August 11-17, 2019, Electronic Primary.
The debate will be livestreamed at 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, today, August 3, 2019, on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYk0fP6toE, for approximately two hours.
You will be able to pose questions in the comments or in the chat. An archived video of the stream will be available shortly afterward at the same link, for those of you who will be unable to view the live event.
We hope to have maximum engagement from our members during this historic debate. Please watch and share!
Second Virtual Debate Among U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidates
On Saturday, August 3, 2019, at 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) will hold its Second Virtual Debate of the 2...Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), was interviewed by Steele Archer of the Debt Nation program and asked to discuss the process for becoming a member of the USTP (free and fast), the benefits of membership, and answers to common questions that individuals may have.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZazhBd645EU
Watch this overview, which answers many common questions, and become a member for free today at transhumanist-party.org/membership/. If you register by August 10, 2019, you will be able to vote in the historic USTP Electronic Primary for our nominee for President of the United States.
U.S. Transhumanist Party Membership Overview - Gennady Stolyarov II Interviewed by Steele Archer
Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), was interviewed by Steele Archer of the Debt Nation program and ask...On Saturday, August 3, 2019, at 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) will hold its Second Virtual Debate of the 2019 USTP Presidential Primary season.
The public will be able to watch the livestream, and the subsequent archived recording of the debate, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYk0fP6toE
Candidates Charles Holsopple, Rachel Haywire, and Johannon Ben Zion will provide updates regarding their campaigns thus far, answer challenging candidate-specific questions, address questions from the audience, and have the opportunity for rebuttals and interactions. In this debate, we strive for maximal transparency to provide USTP members the amplest possible relevant information for them to make their decision regarding the USTP’s nominee for President of the United States during the August 11-17, 2019, Electronic Primary.
Learn about the USTP candidates here: transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/
View individual candidate profiles:
Johannon Ben Zion - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/johannon-ben-zion/
Rachel Haywire - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/rachel-haywire/
Charles Holsopple - transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/charles-holsopple/
Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party for free, no matter where you reside: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
Those who join by August 10, 2019, will be eligible to vote in the Electronic Primary on August 11-17, 2019.
In the second #IAmTranshuman video compilation -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A00X7SfSY9A - transhumanists from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives provide concise, powerful statements as to why they are transhuman. The Transhuman Era has arrived; some of us are aware of this already, whereas others are transhuman but do not know it yet. The #IAmTranshuman campaign helps illustrate how emerging technologies and the accompanying shifts in thinking are already transforming everyday life.
This video was compiled and formatted by Tom Ross, the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party's Director of Media Production: tomross.com/
The following transhumanists are featured, in order of appearance:
- Rich Lee, Biohacking Advisor, U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party
- Keoma Ferreira, U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Foreign Ambassador in Brazil
- Pavel Ilin, Secretary, U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party
- Dan Elton, Founder, Maryland Transhumanist Party
- Cyborion Dre, Member, U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party
Watch the first #IAmTranshuman video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzYw7WT9pVE
Learn more about the #IAmTranshuman campaign, the Transhuman Present Project (#TranshumanPresent), and how you can readily participate: transhumanist-party.org/2018/01/21/concrete-transhumanism/
You can participate in the #IAmTranshuman campaign by submitting still images or video recordings of one minute or less (15 seconds or less for Instagram stories, one minute or less for Instagram-compatible videos). Use the hashtag #IAmTranshuman, and let us know if you would like your video included in a subsequent compilation!
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#IAmTranshuman - Compilation #2 - U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party
In the second #IAmTranshuman video compilation, transhumanists from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives provide concise, powerful statements as to why ...Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: My second interview with Steele Archer on his Debt Nation program highlights recent developments within the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP), including the publication of the master compendium of contemporary transhumanist thought – “The Transhumanist Handbook”, edited by California Transhumanist Party Chairman Newton Lee, my July 16 interview with Jim Strole of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, a detailed overview of the free and easy membership registration process for the USTP, the possibilities of Allied Membership, the benefits of membership, and some general thoughts on the USTP Presidential Primary process thus far. I remain neutral in regard to the candidates, but we do discuss some of the candidates’ distinguishing aspects toward the end. I hope that the August 3 debate will enable the substance of the candidates’ positions and their similarities and differences to shine through to enable the members to make an informed decision.
Watch the video interview here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdiLnmf4UQ
Thank you to Steele for the Birthday wishes!
Please register to join the USTP for free by August 10, 2019, to be eligible to vote in our Electronic Primary on August 11-17: transhumanist-party.org/membership/
Thank you to the Transhumanist Party of Colorado for sharing this video of Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II's remarks for the #IAmTranshuman campaign. Please join the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party for free at transhumanist-party.org/membership/ if you have not already done so, and you will be able to vote in our upcoming Presidential Primary, where your vote *will* make an impact. Also, if you would like to contribute your remarks to the #IAmTranshuman campaign, our Director of Media Production, Tom Ross, is still accepting and encouraging new videos for subsequent installments to this video series. Indeed, our second #IAmTranshuman campaign video will be released imminently.
Longevity as the New Government Strategy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/longevity-new-government-strategy-margaretta-colangelo
The third article in the Official Linkedin Weekly Longevity Industry Newsletter is now available. This week, Aging Analytics Agency co-founders Dmitry Kaminskiy and Margaretta Colangelo cover the recent rise of the Longevity Policy, Politics and Governance sphere, providing a comprehensive overview of the global Government-led Longevity development strategy landscape, and offering forecasts for key developments in this arena in the next five years.
"Citizens of progressive technocracy driven countries can expect healthier, happier and longer lives in the coming years, and it is in the hands of smart governments to utilize existing progress in all sectors of the Longevity industry to maximize the health, wealth and wellness of their citizens, turning Longevity into a major electoral talking-point and policy priority determining the success of parties and politicians."
If you want to stay up-to-date on the latest insights on the Global Longevity Industry, be sure to click the subscribe button at the top right corner of the article.
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The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party welcomes its new Campaign Director, Ryan Stevenson.
Ryan Stevenson is a law student at American University Washington College of Law, where he focuses on the intersection of Constitutional Law and emerging technologies. He is a long-time political organizer, working on college campuses as well as municipal, state and federal campaigns. He holds a BA degree in History from Wayne State University, with an emphasis on medieval intellectual history and history of science.
Find out more about Ryan Stevenson here: transhumanist-party.org/leadership/#CampaignDirector
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UK Government Prioritizes Healthy Longevity as a Major National Priority in New Green Paper - Aging Analytics
Steve Hill from the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) interviews Dr. Sarah Constantin, a researcher with a focus on machine learning at The Longevity Research Institute. This is an excellent article, especially if you want to learn more of the hard science behind longevity research. The topics of the interview range from deep learning being applied to pharmacology, to optimal mouse strains, and ideal areas of research to target age-related diseases.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/30/steve-hill-interviews-sarah-constantin/
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On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II invited James Strole of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension and People Unlimited to discuss the upcoming RAAD Fest 2019 in Las Vegas on October 3-6, 2019 – the fourth RAAD Fest in history and the first in a new venue. Mr. Stolyarov and Mr. Strole discussed the importance of unity in the transhumanist and life-extensionist movements, as well as what opportunities for education and inspiration RAAD Fest will offer to those who wish to live longer and healthier. They also addressed audience questions and were briefly joined by Johannon Ben Zion, Chairman of the Arizona Transhumanist Party. Watch the interview on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOF4flYIvOE
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Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: For those interested in my thoughts on the connections among music, technology, algorithms, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and the philosophical motivations behind my own compositions, I have had a peer-reviewed paper, “Empowering Human Musical Creation through Machines, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence”, published in Issue 2 of the INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art, and Technology. This is a rigorous academic publication but also freely available and sharable via a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license - just as academic works ought to be - so I was honored by the opportunity to contribute my writing. My essay features discussions of Plato and Aristotle, Kirnberger's and Mozart's musical dice games, the AI-generated compositions of Ray Kurzweil and David Cope, and the recently completed "Unfinished" Symphony of Franz Schubert, whose second half was made possible by the Huawei / Lucas Cantor, AI / human collaboration. Even Conlon Nancarrow, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen make appearances in this paper. Look in the bibliography for YouTube and downloadable MP3 links to all of my compositions that I discuss, as this paper is intended to be a multimedia experience.
Music, technology, and transhumanism - all in close proximity in the same paper and pointing the way toward the vast proliferation of creative possibilities in the future as the distance between the creator's conception of a musical idea and its implementation becomes ever shorter.
Read the paper here: transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Stolyarov_Empowering_Musical_Creation.pdf
You can also find my paper on pages 81-99 of Issue 2:
insam-institute.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/INSAM-Journal-of-Contemporary-Music-Art-and-Techno...
“Top-30 Longevity Conferences 2019-2020” is a 60-page open-access analytical report by Aging Analytics Agency that uses cost-benefit analysis to identify the Top-30 Longevity Conferences globally taking place in 2019-2020, including detailed analysis and infographics on their regional distribution, cost, and focus.
Link to the Report: www.aginganalytics.com/longevity-conferences
The report is complemented by a comprehensive online Longevity Conferences IT-Platform that contains data on 150 Longevity-related conferences taking place in 2019-2020.
With the rapid development of the Longevity industry in recent years, the number of events dedicated to this topic has increased proportionately. These events differ from one another in a number of ways including target audience, scope of featured topics, entrance fee range, region and venue, etc. Potential participants need to be aware of such details while planning which conferences to attend, and this report seeks to serve as a guide for this kind of decision making.
The report also highlights a number of previous conferences held by top-tier finance and business media brands like The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg and others, as well as prominent financial institutions and investment banks, that helped establish Longevity as the mainstream topic for major financial and healthcare conferences that it is today.
Steve Hill, in this article originally published by our allies at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), writes, “A common concern in the community is that the FDA, the EMA, and other bodies, such as WHO, do not classify aging as a disease and that this poses a problem for developing therapies that target aging. However, this is not really as serious an issue as some people would suggest; today, we will have a look at why that is.” Mr. Hill’s article is encouraging in illustrating how major research progress in combating aging can be made even before aging is classified as a disease. However, Mr. Hill also acknowledges that “Even though classifying aging as a disease is unnecessary, significant reform in the regulatory system is still needed in order to encourage investors and companies to put the time and money into researching and developing rejuvenation therapies.” This is where political advocacy from organizations such as the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party is important in order to shift the incentives to favor the acceleration of research and deployment of rejuvenation treatments.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/29/not-defining-aging-as-a-disease/
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The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party features this article by Nicola Bagalà, originally published by our allies at the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF). In this article, Mr. Bagalà examines two studies from 2009, in which researchers interviewed members of the public regarding their opinions of life-extension research. Mr. Bagalà writes, “As highlighted in the studies, research on the public’s perception of life-extension science has been very much neglected; this, in turn, has made it harder to identify the misconceptions and incorrect information fueling some common concerns about life extension and made it even harder to address those very concerns. Needless to say, the more that the public views life extension negatively, the less supportive that it will probably be, which is bad news for researchers.” Read this extensive article analyzing and providing compelling rebuttals to common fallacies that hold people back from supporting life-extension research.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/28/popular-reactions-to-life-extension/
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The Longevity Industry will be the Biggest and Most Complex Industry in Human History
The Longevity Industry will be the Biggest and Most Complex Industry in Human History
The Longevity industry will dwarf all other industries in both size and market capitalization and will require unprecedented sophistication in its approach for assessment and forecasting from the start to neutralize challenges and manifest opportunities The Longevity Industry is not just about biote1600 members are now part of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party. Join us today for free at transhumanist-party.org/membership/ and help us grow. Those who join by August 10, 2019, will be eligible to vote in our Electronic Primary for our candidates for President of the United States.
Membership – U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party – Official Website
Membership Membership Become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free by filling out this concise Membership Application Form. For those who cannot see the Membership Application Form below, follow this link to a separate page containing the form. As a bonus for completing this form, you wi...For those who were/are unable to watch the entire three-hour First Virtual Debate among the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Presidential candidates, we now have a highlights reel that combines their introductory statements with excerpts from their responses regarding how their platforms align with each of the USTP’s three Core Ideals.
Thank you to Tom Ross, the USTP Director of Media Production, for creating this highlights reel. Watch it to gain insights from candidates Johannon Ben Zion, Rachel Haywire, and Charles Holsopple.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i8F7yfJgR4
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First U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Presidential Debate - Highlights #1
Watch highlights from the first virtual debate among U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) candidates for President of the United States, which ...Message from Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party: At long last, my essay “The United States Transhumanist Party and the Politics of Abundance” is available in the newly published master compilation, The Transhumanism Handbook, edited by Newton Lee, the California Transhumanist Party Chairman and U.S. Transhumanist Party Education and Media Advisor. This book is a milestone publication in transhumanist thought, and I encourage everyone to purchase it and read it in full. Fortunately, I am able to share my own chapter – 60 pages within the book – for free download here: transhumanist-party.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Stolyarov_USTP_Politics_of_Abundance.pdf.
Read “The United States Transhumanist Party and the Politics of Abundance” for a detailed explanation of the premises behind transhumanist politics and what the U.S. Transhumanist Party stands for. This essay is current through year-end 2018, and various other significant developments have occurred since then. However, it should give you a strong impression of the USTP’s values, operating procedures, areas of focus, and aspirations for the future.
Abstract: “The depredations of contemporary politics and the majority of our era’s societal problems stem from the scarcity of material resources and time. However, numerous emerging technologies on the horizon promise to dramatically lift the present-day constraints of scarcity. The United States Transhumanist Party, in advocating the accelerated development of these technologies and seeking to influence public opinion to embrace them, is forging a new political paradigm rooted in abundance, rather than scarcity. This new approach is simultaneously more ambitious and more civil than the status quo. Here I illustrate the distinguishing features of the Transhumanist Party’s mode of operation, achievements, and plans for the future.”
Purchase the Transhumanism Handbook here: www.amazon.com/Transhumanism-Handbook-Newton-Lee/dp/3030169197
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This evening (July 9, 2019) at 9:15 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, you will be able to watch my conversation with German transhumanist Tobias Teufel on science, technology, and transhumanism. You will be able to view it on YouTube Live (I am giving that platform another chance for now) and ask us questions:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXA3terLK4
Gennady Stolyarov II and Tobias Teufel Discuss Science, Technology, and Transhumanism
U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II speaks with German transhumanist Tobias Teufel regarding a variety of subjects in science, technology,...The U.S. Transhumanist Party features this article by Steve Hill, originally published by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF). In this article, Mr. Hill discusses Citi’s latest disruptive innovation publication, in which anti-aging medicine is #2 on the list! This is one more example, out of the myriad of examples, of how significant of an impact this field is making.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/27/citi-anti-aging-medicines-top-10/
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We once again have openings for two volunteer Officer positions in the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party. We have a small but dedicated Officer team whose multiplicity of talents have enabled the USTP to achieve on a level far beyond what our size might suggest. Those interested in joining us should e-mail Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II at gennadystolyarovii@gmail.com.
DIRECTOR OF VISUAL ART - transhumanist-party.org/leadership/#DirectorOfVisualArt: The Director of Visual Art position would be suited for an artist, graphic designer, art scholar, and/or curator who has a strong interest in technological progress and the improvement of the human condition. This position would be responsible for locating techno-positive, transhumanist-themed art, working with the artists to publicize it on the U.S. Transhumanist Party website and social media, developing or locating graphic-design resources for the Transhumanist Party to use in spreading its message (e.g., infographics, posters, covers, memes) and generally helping us cultivate a techno-positive, futuristic, and refined esthetic that inspires public interest and serves to motivate humankind’s ascent toward the next great era of our civilization.
The Director of Visual Art will also have the opportunity to promote his or her work on the U.S. Transhumanist Party website and social-media pages, achieving exposure to a growing and sympathetic audience.
CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR - transhumanist-party.org/leadership/#CampaignDirector: The Campaign Director’s primary role would be to interface with candidates seeking the endorsement of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party during the 2019 Presidential Primary and the 2020 Election Season. This would include facilitating discussions and debates among candidates, assisting with outreach to the general public, and communicating the USTP’s principles and expectations to candidates who seek the USTP’s endorsement.
This liaison role is not limited to potential Presidential candidates and would extend to candidates for other federal, state, and local offices. The Campaign Director would also periodically search for and identify independent and/or nonpartisan candidates whose platforms and priorities sufficiently align with the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform that an endorsement by the USTP might be possible. For candidates who are ultimately endorsed by the USTP, the Campaign Director will assist with spreading those candidates’ messages and ideas via social media and other channels of communication.
The public is encouraged to watch today’s first-ever virtual debate among Transhumanist primary candidates for President of the United States. We will have candidates Charles Holsopple, Rachel Haywire, and Johannon Ben Zion discussing the principles of transhumanism and Core Ideals of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, as well as a wide range of policy proposals that enables transhumanist candidates to stand apart from and above the conventional political fray.
The debate will be livestreamed at 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, today, July 6, 2019, on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKsUFTzPv0, for approximately two hours. You will be able to pose questions in the comments or in the chat. An archived video of the stream will be available shortly afterward at the same link, for those of you who will be unable to view the live event.
We hope to have maximum engagement from our members during this historic debate. Please watch and share!
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First Virtual Debate Among U.S. Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidates
The first virtual debate among U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party candidates for President of the United States will take place on Saturday, July 6,...Message from U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II: In honor of the July 4 holiday, I am re-invoking this poster created by Steven Chernets – because, indeed, I want YOU to vote Transhumanist in the upcoming August Electronic Primary and, if possible, in the 2020 General Election. But first, coming up this Saturday, July 6, 2019, at 3 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch history being made during the first-ever official Presidential primary debate entirely among Transhumanist candidates: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKsUFTzPv0.
We look forward to having candidates Charles Holsopple, Rachel Haywire, Dan Good, and Johannon Ben Zion discuss Transhumanist principles and policy ideas and why the Upwing political orientation needs to spread to enable us all to transcend the Left and the Right.
Please watch the debate and register for free membership in the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party at transhumanist-party.org/membership/.
The U.S. Transhumanist Party features this interview between Nicola Bagalà of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) and Reason, an activist who has been helping scientists to cure age-related diseases and posting in-depth commentary on a blog dating back to the early 2000s. Reason has helped multiple fundraisers and contributed much more to the progress of life-extension research. The topics of the interview range from a quick biography of Reason’s involvement in fighting age-related diseases, to a discussion of when aging will be defined as a disease by the FDA. The interview also covers Reason’s new company, called Repair Biotechnologies.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/26/nicola-bagala-interviews-reason/
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The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party (USTP) has opened its General Discussion Thread for the Third Quarter of 2019. Please post your comments at the following URL:
transhumanist-party.org/2019/07/03/3q-2019-general-discussion/
The purpose of this thread is to facilitate member comments pertaining to transhumanism and the USTP, which might not specifically fit the subjects of any other post or article on the USTP 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.
Watch this wide-ranging discussion between U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and Steele Archer of the Debt Nation show, addressing a broad array of emerging technologies, the aspirations of transhumanism, and aspects of both broader and more personal economic matters – from the impact of technology on the labor market to how Mr. Stolyarov paid off his mortgage in 6.5 years. This conversation delved into Austrian economics, techno-optimism, cultural obstacles to progress, the work and ideals of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party, life extension and the “Death is Wrong” children’s book, science fiction, and space colonization – among many other topics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DIza-8uO4
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Billionaire Future/ Featuring Gennady Stolyarov II- Debt Nation EP7
Todays talk is with the leader of the Transhumanist Party USA. COME ON THE SHOW! GOT SOMETHING TO SELL? SOMETHING TO SAY? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE! GET IT NOW: VI...Dr. Nichola Conlon, Nuchido CEO & Co-founder, recently spoke with James Strole, Director of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, about her team’s work in achieving the biggest increase of NAD in humans reported by any scientific group. The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party brings you this update from our allies at the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, who are organizing RAAD Fest 2019 in Las Vegas (to take place on October 3-6).
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8hbXZS63g
NAD is a natural molecule found within every living cell of your body. Without it, your body couldn’t generate the energy it needs to survive or kick-start its natural cell maintenance and repair systems. In its youthful state, your body naturally makes and retains high levels of NAD. But as you age, these levels are not maintained and the amount of NAD in your body drops by 50% every 20 years. This decline has been scientifically linked to the increasing effects of aging.
Find our more here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/07/01/biggest-increase-nad-humans/
For more information about RAAD Fest and registration options, visit www.raadfest.com/
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Increasing NAD+ Levels for Longevity at RAADfest| Nuchido's Dr. Nichola Conlon, James Strole
Dr. Nichola Conlon, Nuchido CEO & Co-founder, chats with James Strole, Director of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, about what she's bringing to RAA...On June 28, 2019, two of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Presidential primary candidates, Rachel Haywire and Johannon Ben Zion, conversed about the juxtaposition of techno-progressive and public-health goals, policy-making, and organizing. You can listen to their discussion from the USTP website at transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/30/ben-zion-haywire-conversation/.
This thoughtful and constructive policy-oriented discussion is a worthy precursor to the forthcoming July 6 Virtual Debate (which the public can watch at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKsUFTzPv0), where candidates including Johannon Ben Zion and Rachel Haywire (as well as Charles Holsopple and Dan Good) will be articulating their visions of transhumanist policy to the public. The caliber and civility of discourse in the Ben Zion / Haywire conversation stand out as being immensely higher than what was observed during the Democratic primary debates, where it seems that many of the candidates were at one another’s throats. Once again, transhumanists have shown that they can do better. This discussion is a valuable building block for the outcome that we hope will happen once the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party Electronic Primary is concluded in mid-August – that all of the candidates will collaborate with the nominee, no matter who wins, and work toward maximizing the influence and impact of transhumanist ideas and policy proposals.
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party features this article by Steve Hill, originally published by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF). This article reminds us of the strong connection between our gut microbiome and aging, along with a review of a study that provides greater insight into the mechanism of how a poor diet can contribute to age-related diseases.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/22/poor-diet-dysbiosis/
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Professor Ewan St. John Smith from the University of Cambridge provides an overview of some of the fascinating features of naked mole-rats, which enable them to live approximately ten times longer than other rodents, be resistant to acid pain, avoid all cancer, and exhibit resilience to a wide variety of other conditions.
Dr. Smith writes, “Naked mole-rats may look comical, but their magical biology is no laughing matter. Studying their hidden powers will not always result in preventions, cures and treatments for human ailments because of fundamental differences between the species. However, every new insight has the potential to lead to a breakthrough – as animal research has continually done throughout recent history. By unlocking the secrets held within their cells in a responsible manner, we may one day improve countless human lives.”
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/21/naked-mole-rat-impervious/
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The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party features this article by Steve Hill, originally published by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) . This article takes another step forward toward clearing up a common misconception that many scientists and laypeople hold, i.e., the notion that extending telomeres causes cancer. Mr. Hill cites a recent article published in the journal PLOS Genetics, in which researchers found there to be no increase in cancer, even when telomeres were extended in mice from cancer-prone mouse strains. Hopefully this article will help researchers reevaluate this misconception so this important age-reversal research will be advanced much faster.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/21/telomerase-not-cancer-risk/
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Johannon Ben Zion interviews open-source business developer Nikolay Agapov on his concept for an extremely inexpensive space elevator – the Agapov Orbital Lift. The construction of a highly economical infrastructure project such as the Agapov Orbital Lift would greatly reduce the costs of space travel and thus enable rapid exploration and development of space for the benefit of humankind and all sentient entities – thus also accelerating our transition into the next era of our civilization.
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/12/agapov-ben-zion-conversation/
The U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party has published this interview to advance the goals of Section XVII of the USTP Platform, which states that “The United States Transhumanist Party holds that present and future societies should take all reasonable measures to embrace and fund space travel, not only for the spirit of adventure and to gain knowledge by exploring the universe, but as an ultimate safeguard to its citizens and transhumanity should planet Earth become uninhabitable or be destroyed.” As of this time, the USTP has not yet endorsed a Presidential candidate but welcomes activity from all of our Presidential Primary candidates to advance the USTP Platform.
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This essay by Sarah Lim is written in support of the ideas presented by Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson in their book “Unfit for the Future: the Need for Moral Enhancement”. The author argues “that Savulescu and Persson’s arguments for moral bioenhancement should be given more serious consideration, on the grounds that moral bioenhancement will most likely be humanity’s best chance at ensuring its future ethical progress, since our current achievements in rapid ethical progress have been highly contingent on economic progress and an increasing quality of life.”
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/09/unfit-for-the-future/
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Nicola Bagalà and financial planner Michael Nuschke respond to common concerns about life extension exacerbating a crisis in pension systems. They explain “that retirement exists out of necessity more than desire, and even if you try to look at it from a different angle, you’ve still got the problem of the burden represented by age-related diseases. Given these facts, it’s important to understand how retirement works before we can establish if and why the feared pension crisis expected in a few decades from now is actually going to happen and whether life extension will make the problem better or worse.”
The authors point out important reasons for hope, including the insight that significantly greater longevity can only be achieved via “a significant extension of our healthspan, from which an extension of lifespan logically follows, and as such, it has the potential not just to rid us of age-related diseases altogether but also to solve the financial problems caused by the necessity of pensions and geriatrics by mitigating or eliminating our need for them.”
transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/16/future-of-pensions/
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Top-50 Women Longevity Leaders by Aging Analytics Agency
Ana María Cuervo Camilla cavendish Carol Greider Cynthia Kenyon Daisy Robinton Daria Khaltourina Edwina Rogers Elena Milova Elizabeth Parrish Elizabeth Blackburn Hannah-Beth Jackson Helen Whatley Judith Campisi Julie Andersen Laura Deming Lisa Fabiny-Kiser Maggie Throup Maria Konovalenko Maria Shriver Maria Entraigues Abramson Natasha Vita-More Poly Mamoshina Robin Starbuck Farmanfarmaian Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross Suzanne Somers Tanya Jones
Link to Report: www.aginganalytics.com/top-50-women
"Top-50 Women Longevity Leaders" Aging Analytics Agency's open-access report charts the rise of influential female public and private sector professionals working to grow the global Longevity landscape through their efforts in business, science, policy and media outreach.
Link to Report: www.aginganalytics.com/top-50-women
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Sarah Lim’s views on teleology and existentialism have changed considerably since she joined the transhumanist movement. This essay is her attempt at reconciling her views on humanity’s quest for cosmological purpose with the role of human agency and value creation.
One of her key insights, among many, is this: “So what if the universe doesn’t have any vested interest in taking care of us? We shouldn’t expect it to. Rather, we owe it to ourselves to overcome the biological limitations nature has slapped on us.”
Read her article here: transhumanist-party.org/2019/06/09/transhumanism-teleology/
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