{"id":7956,"date":"2019-02-16T03:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2019-02-27T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:12:39","slug":"transhumanist-reforming-political-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2019\/02\/transhumanist-reforming-political-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist Ideas for Reforming Political Processes and Improving Government Accountability \u2013 Presentation by Gennady Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Transhumanist-Party-logo_bg-304x322.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-7332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Transhumanist-Party-logo_bg-304x322-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Gennady Stolyarov II<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Aa2VHb1Dq0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On February 13, 2019, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/\">U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party<\/a>, spoke to the Young Americans for Liberty Chapter at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in a wide-ranging discussion on the intersection of technology and politics and the types of reforms that could pave the way to the new technological era of major progress and radical abundance. Watch Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s presentation on YouTube\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Aa2VHb1Dq0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stolyarov discussed policy positions from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/platform\/#PoliticalProcesses\">U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform<\/a>, such as support for ranked-preference voting, greatly lowered ballot-access thresholds, simultaneous nationwide primaries, shorter campaign seasons, AI-assisted redistricting, germaneness rules for legislation, minimum consideration timeframes for amendments, and the general desirable shift in the balance away from special-interest lobbies and toward intelligent laypersons.<\/p>\n<p>See Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s presentation slides\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Transhumanist-Ideas-for-Reforming-Political-Processes-and-Improving-Government-Accountability-Gennady-Stolyarov-II.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Become a member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside. Apply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/membership\">here<\/a>\u00a0in less than a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=10dFgrjdfq\">interview of Ray Kurzweil<\/a>\u00a0at RAAD Fest 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the presentation by Gennady Stolyarov II at RAAD Fest 2018, entitled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kykROyu_xNc\">The U.S. Transhumanist Party: Four Years of Advocating for the Future<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1298\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019.jpg 1298w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1298px) 100vw, 1298px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1209\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2.jpg 1209w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GSII_YAL_Presentation_2-13-2019_2-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gennady Stolyarov II On February 13, 2019, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party, spoke to the Young Americans for Liberty Chapter at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in a wide-ranging discussion on the intersection of technology and politics and the types of reforms that could pave the way to the new technological era of major progress and radical abundance. Watch Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s presentation on YouTube\u00a0here. Mr. Stolyarov discussed policy positions from the\u00a0U.S. Transhumanist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2019\/02\/transhumanist-reforming-political-processes\/\"> 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":[5,104],"tags":[2193,80,467,444,1549,84,314,315,40,1768,249,382,5615,844,59,5072,1300,38,73,4614,4978,2548,65,5616,5573,105,4280,206,25,1344,5192,2055],"class_list":["post-7956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-transhumanism","tag-accountability","tag-ballot","tag-choice","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-freedom","tag-future","tag-futurism","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-gennady-stolyarov-ii","tag-germaneness","tag-government","tag-judicial-branch","tag-legislation","tag-liberty","tag-partisanship","tag-political-parties","tag-politics-2","tag-president","tag-primaries","tag-ranked-preference","tag-reform","tag-ron-paul","tag-sousveillance","tag-transhuman-party","tag-transhumanism-2","tag-transhumanist-party","tag-transparency","tag-united-states","tag-voting","tag-young-americans-for-liberty","tag-zoltan-istvan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956","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=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7960,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions\/7960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}