Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

Intended to bring leading thinkers in areas such as longevity, transhumanism, futurism, artificial intelligence, politics, philosophy, art, and culture – making connections among disciplines to facilitate breakthroughs in understanding and a more rational, advanced, and informed society. In the spirit of the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, the Enlightenment Salons make possible in-depth, long-form conversations that enable the exploration of ideas about humankind’s future in unprecedented ways.

Episodes

April 21, 2024 115 mins
On Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites futurist and rocket engineer Mike DiVerde to discuss his outlook on some of the hazards of space travel – such as galactic cosmic radiation – and possible paths forward that would acknowledge and work around these hazards. 
Mike DiVerde is the CEO of the Washington State Transhumanist Party. He seeks to transcend human limitations by overcom...
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On Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s conversation with Dr. Avinash Singh on the subject of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and both the current state and the future prospects for this area of technology – including dream recording, neuroadaptive applications, and sensory augmentation. U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, along with Art Ramon Garcia (Director...
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April 7, 2024 110 mins
On Sunday, April 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the special Longevity Fireside Chat, where U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II interviews Mark Hamalainen of the Longevity Biotech Fellowship and Anastasia Egorova of Open Longevity from their Longevity Lodge in Kingsbury, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The wide-ranging and candid conversation addresses how to draw talent to the longevity field, challenges and bot...
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March 31, 2024 113 mins
On Sunday, March 31, 2024, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, watch this stream of the interview with U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II by Daniel D. Tadesse, host of the Daniel Demissie Podcast. This interview delves into many aspects of Chairman Stolyarov’s background and early influences, as well as some of the endeavors of the USTP. 
Many of Mr. Stolyarov’s writings – including “Death is Wrong”, “Eden against the Coloss...
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March 24, 2024 114 mins
 On Sunday, March 24, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites its Director of Scholarship, Dr. Dan Elton, to provide an overview of key discussions at the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4LI) 2024 D.C. Fly-In Event, which he attended on March 20-21, 2024. 
The A4LI Fly-In included a longevity industry discussion with ARPA-H, the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, and a Longevity In...
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On Sunday, March 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this compilation stream of classic videos by Gennady Stolyarov II, explaining how he came to oppose all war, how war is the enemy of human progress, and what a more sensible foreign policy of peace and non-interventionism would look like.
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March 10, 2024 113 mins
On Sunday, March 10, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party will stream its Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Dr. Ilia Stambler, focusing on his new two-part article, “Reductionism and Holism in the History of Aging and Longevity Research: Does the Whole Have Parts?” The conversation also delves into Dr. Stambler’s other recent longevity activism endeavors and thoughts on the current state of longevity advoc...
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March 3, 2024 116 mins
On Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Dan Elton, our USTP Director of Scholarship, to present on the events at the Beneficial AGI Summit in Panama City, organized by SingularityNET, which he attended from February 27 through March 1, 2024.
Find out more about the Beneficial AGI Summit at https://bgi24.ai/.
Watch the livestream of Day 1 of the Beneficial AGI Summit –https://www.y...
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February 25, 2024 113 mins
On Sunday, February 25, 2024, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, watch this compilation stream of classic videos by Gennady Stolyarov II from 2008, where he provides a systematic, rational overview of what atheism is and is not, common myths about atheism, why many people choose atheism, and some of the implications of atheism for society and morality. Mr. Stolyarov posits some frameworks which would enable atheists and religious people to co...
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February 18, 2024 113 mins
On Sunday, February 18, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this stream of campaign videos and discussion by Tom Ross, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s 2024 U.S. Presidential Candidate, on his Earthling and Artisanal Intelligence Initiatives – two of the three major initiatives of his campaign.
These discussions were originally hosted on August 8 and 15, 2023, by Dr. Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana of the World Talent Economy Forum, the...
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On Sunday, February 11, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this stream of the classic first interview between Steele Archer, host of the Debt Nation show, and Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party.
On July 1, 2019, Chairman Stolyarov was invited to a wide-ranging discussion with Steele Archer on his Debt Nation show, addressing a broad array of emerging technologies, the aspirations of transhumanism, ...
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February 4, 2024 115 mins
U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Sandy Martin, founder of the Biohacker Expo, which will happen in Miami on February 23-25, 2024, to discuss the forthcoming Expo’s highlights, as well as her thoughts about biohacking more generally, including the activities aimed at healthy longevity that she finds most interesting and promising in that realm.
Visit the website of the Biohacker Expo: https://biohackerexpo.com/
Read more about Sandy ...
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January 28, 2024 115 mins
On Sunday, January 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites members of the OmniFuturists to discuss their new book, “Future Visions: Approaching the Economic Singularity”, which offers a diverse array of political and economic perspectives in order to address a possible near-future tidal wave of technological unemployment.
The following authors will present regarding their book chapters, their out...
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January 21, 2024 115 mins
U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Amy Baum for a conversation on her dual interests of philosophy and the pursuit of longevity, as well as how they interrelate. From fundamental existential questions to insights that she has gathered in the course of covering the longevity field, this will be a conversation that will connect first principles with present-day developments and future opportunities for humankind.
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January 14, 2024 114 mins
On Sunday, January 14, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites thinkers, activists, and advocates from the African continent to discuss their efforts in spreading the ideas of transhumanism and the extent of progress in public awareness and receptiveness to transhumanism in their home countries as well as on the African continent more generally.
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January 8, 2024 114 mins
On Sunday, January 7, 2024, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites David Patterson to discuss the concept of Social Learning Groups and the three types of such groups that he has conceptualized: Online Learning Groups, Personal Development Groups, and Self-Study Groups. The groups’ purpose is for people to learn together from the same material, such as an online course or a book. People in such groups meet reg...
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January 6, 2024 103 mins
On Sunday, December 31, 2023, the U.S. Transhumanist Party streamed classic presentations by Gennady Stolyarov II from 2008 to 2014, analyzing Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and some of the contemporary developments regarding it, responding to certain arguments made by Ayn Rand, and providing commentary on the complementarity between Objectivism and Transhumanism, as well as ways of bridging some differences among some adhere...
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December 18, 2023 114 mins
On Sunday, December 17, 2023, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites the team of JellyfishDAO – a community to help the production and promotion of longevity films and documentaries – to discuss their projects and aspirations.
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December 3, 2023 116 mins
Andreas Xirtus is a popular podcaster with a large following; he is the founder of a historical restoration society known as Tartary Nova and Director of the Fediverse, a free software foundation creating tools to protect free speech. He has studied nanotechnology and worked as a nanotechnology engineer and microsatellite specialist for NASA, a social-media strategist for Turner Entertainment, and a content creator at Timcast Media...
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December 2, 2023 114 mins
On Sunday, November 26, 2023, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Rosemarie Palafox to discuss her experiences as a recipient of basic income in the Denver Basic Income Project. U.S. Transhumanist Party Secretary Brent Ellman will also provide his perspective as a researcher in the area of universal basic income. The discussion will address ways in which the favorable experiences from the Denver Basic Incom...
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