{"id":6751,"date":"2016-11-22T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:16:21","slug":"libertarianism-and-transhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2016\/11\/libertarianism-and-transhumanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarianism and Transhumanism &#8211; How Liberty and Radical Technological Progress Fit Together &#8211; Presentation by G. Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"cboxElement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4311 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm-100x100.jpg 100w\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><big><big>G. Stolyarov II<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><big><br \/>\n<\/big><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FKOfYCzBeIk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gennady Stolyarov II, as Chief Executive of the Nevada Transhumanist Party and as of November 17, 2016, the Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party, discusses the complementarities between libertarian and transhumanist philosophies and objectives, encouraging more libertarians to embrace emerging technologies and an \u201cupwing\u201d perspective on progress, tolerance, and cosmopolitanism. Over time Mr. Stolyarov hopes to be able to do similar outreach to persons of other persuasions \u2013 from centrists to non-identitarian conservatives to left-progressives to socialists to apolitical individuals, seeking common ground in pursuit of the improvement of the human condition through emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation was made to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpnevada.org\/washoe_county_organizing_convention\">Washoe County Libertarian Party Organizing Convention<\/a> in Reno, Nevada, on November 20, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Presentation slides can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/Libertarianism_and_Transhumanism_Slides.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United States Transhumanist Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transhumanist-party.org\">Website<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/IpUjooEZjnfOFUMi2\">Membership Application Form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nevada Transhumanist Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/nevada-transhumanist-party\/\">Constitution and Bylaws<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/NevadaTranshumanistParty\/\">Facebook Group<\/a> (join to become a member)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II ****************************** Gennady Stolyarov II, as Chief Executive of the Nevada Transhumanist Party and as of November 17, 2016, the Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party, discusses the complementarities between libertarian and transhumanist philosophies and objectives, encouraging more libertarians to embrace emerging technologies and an \u201cupwing\u201d perspective on progress, tolerance, and cosmopolitanism. Over time Mr. Stolyarov hopes to be able to do similar outreach to persons of other persuasions \u2013 from centrists to non-identitarian conservatives to left-progressives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2016\/11\/libertarianism-and-transhumanism\/\"> 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":[41,5,104],"tags":[1549,5011,314,315,40,703,1077,30,267,59,521,251,5012,95,5009,1734,1583,4280,5010,2055],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-transhumanism","tag-elections","tag-freeom","tag-future","tag-futurism","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-gary-johnson","tag-humanism","tag-libertarian","tag-libertarianism","tag-liberty","tag-life-extension","tag-nevada","tag-political-spectrum","tag-progress","tag-reno","tag-tolerance","tag-transhumanist","tag-transhumanist-party","tag-washoe-county","tag-zoltan-istvan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","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=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}