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Transhuman Political Follies – America Edition
All you need to know on how to fail at American Politics, is to watch a Transhumanist run for office. It does not matter what country you are in, they fail no matter where you find them. We now have the Epic Failure of Zoltan Istvan as he campaigned for the greater glory of himself for more than a year. Which resulted in a friends and family candidate, basically only friends and family voted for him. Considering we had an election cycle that cried for a third party candidate, and Transhumanists failed to fill that slot. In my opinion, this could have been an election cycle for Transhumanists to win the…
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Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan Review Part Two
In part one of my review of the Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan, I covered the political end of the book. Part two of the review is going to cover the Transhumanist end of the book. Three Laws of Transhumanism are: A transhumanist must safeguard one’s own existence above all else. A transhumanist must strive to achieve omnipotence as expediently as possible—so long as one’s actions do not conflict with the First Law. A transhumanist must safeguard value in the universe—so long as one’s actions do not conflict with the First and Second Laws. By and far this is the worst part of the book. It is a poor mans…
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Review of Zoltan Istvan’s book The Transhumanist Wager – Part One
It is extremely rare for me to read a book from beginning to end. This book was able to hold my attention and the book was not necessarily predictable, which is a pleasant change of pace. In my opinion, it is a solid book that should be on anyone’s reading list, especially if you are new to the transhumanist movement or thinking. As far as the content within the book, some of the key concepts are on the point, when you look at some of the deeper concepts on the other hand, it is off by a country mile. What I will cover in part one of this two part…
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If I Should Die Before I Wake – Armand Vespertine
Author : Armand Vespertine You may already be familiar with the name Zoltan Istvan . He’s a transhumanist philosopher, best known for his book The Transhumanist Wager. His protagonist Jethro Knights is a radical iconoclast, and lately Zoltan himself has been publishing articles advocating the drastic change implemented in his book. He received death threats for his WIRED post in favour of restricting Human breeding, and his latest article on Huffington suggests that we should make it illegal for anyone under the age of sixteen to participate in religion . While I respect Zoltan and enjoy entertaining his philosophies, I believe his radicalism is misplaced. When discussing the dangers that religion…
