{"id":3786,"date":"2015-01-24T22:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2015-01-24T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:22:20","slug":"we-accelerate-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/01\/we-accelerate-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Accelerate Technological Progress? \u2013 Panel Discussion with G. Stolyarov II, Demian Zivkovic, and Arash Amini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><big><big>G. Stolyarov II, Demian Zivkovic, and Arash Amini<br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><big><span style=\"color: #000080;\">January 24, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n<\/big><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJWxDAdtHO4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Mr. Stolyarov invites panelists to offer their thoughts on the following question:<\/p>\n<p>What actions can most people take to assist in the acceleration of technological progress so as to solve, within the lifetimes of those alive today, many of the major problems currently associated with the human condition?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Demian Zivkovic<\/strong>, 23 years old, is a student of artificial intelligence and philosophy, and founder and president of the Arma&#8217;thwynn Society &#8211; an international transhumanist think tank comprised of a group of transhumanism-oriented professionals, students, and entrepreneurs interested in the interdisciplinary approach to advancing transhumanist technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Demian has been involved in several endeavors, including interviewing Professor Aubrey de Grey, organizing a transhumanism lecture in The Netherlands now, and spreading \u201cDeath is Wrong\u201d \u2013 Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s illustrated children\u2019s book on indefinite life extension \u2013 in The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arash Amini<\/strong> earned a BS Physics degree from UIC. Since his time at college, Arash was focused on scaling cleantech innovations as far and wide as he could manage.<\/p>\n<p>Thus his affection for the private venture- the vehicle he believes moves information and goods faster than any other available.<\/p>\n<p>While in his last semester at college, Amini started a 312 Aquaponics and went to research and develop industrial scale vertical farming. His latest venture, FarmTower Co is personalizing farming- bringing the site of production to the site of consumption.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DIY-Aquaponics-Definitive-wherever-whenever-ebook\/dp\/B00O1A1F22\/\">DIY Aquaponics: The Definitive How To Guide<\/a>&#8221; and curator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diyaquaponicsdesign.info\">www.diyaquaponicsdesign.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Amini helps startups market their ideas, and grow their revenues without the need of investors. He spends his time ideating solutions to the world&#8217;s largest problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/sens.org\/\">SENS Research Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metformin\">Metformin<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Wikipedia<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spontaneous_order\">Spontaneous order<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Wikipedia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II, Demian Zivkovic, and Arash Amini January 24, 2015 ****************************** Mr. Stolyarov invites panelists to offer their thoughts on the following question: What actions can most people take to assist in the acceleration of technological progress so as to solve, within the lifetimes of those alive today, many of the major problems currently associated with the human condition? Panelists Demian Zivkovic, 23 years old, is a student of artificial intelligence and philosophy, and founder and president of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/01\/we-accelerate-progress\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,87,356],"tags":[3851,611,3845,2362,40,112,521,308,146,3850,95,109],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2","category-culture","category-technology-2","tag-arash-amini","tag-consumers","tag-demian-zivkovic","tag-discussion","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-indefinite-life-extension","tag-life-extension","tag-longevity","tag-morality","tag-panel","tag-progress","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}