{"id":8655,"date":"2025-11-24T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:48:13","slug":"openly-transhumanist-politics-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2025\/11\/openly-transhumanist-politics-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Openly Transhumanist Politics is Needed for Vitalism to Succeed &#8211; Presentation by Gennady Stolyarov II at Vitalist Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1068 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/logo_bg-150x150-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Gennady Stolyarov II<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NHvDh7ax9EM?si=Aew01u1u4flWyce7\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">On May 25, 2025, Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NHvDh7ax9EM\">presented<\/a> at the Vitalist Bay Longevity Policy Conference on behalf of the U.S. Transhumanist Party about why explicitly Transhumanist politics is necessary for the movement for radical life extension to become more widely embraced. This presentation encapsulates Chairman Stolyarov\u2019s most current thinking about where advocates of radical life extension can most effectively make a difference politically. It also provides his theory of change \u2013 how a persistent core (such as what he intends for the U.S. Transhumanist Party to become) can facilitate steady progress toward the goal without risking derailment by the all-too-common pressures \u2013 both internal and external \u2013 that cause most organizations to perform sub-optimally or even ruin them altogether. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">This presentation was discussed in the article by journalist Arkadi Mazin of Lifespan.io, entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifespan.io\/news\/longevity-policy-advocacy-in-the-spotlight-at-vitalist-bay\/\">Longevity Policy, Advocacy in the Spotlight at Vitalist Bay<\/a>\u201d \u2013 published on June 20, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Arkadi Mazin was also the person who asked Gennady Stolyarov II a question at the conclusion of this presentation. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/membership\">Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free<\/a>, no matter where you reside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitalistbay.com\/\">Vitalist Bay website<\/a><\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Visit the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levf.org\">Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation (LEVF)<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GSII_Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210529671-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GSII_Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210529671-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GSII_Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210529671-300x226.jpg 300w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210333153-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210333153-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210333153-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210333153-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210333153-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Vitalist_Bay_Presentation_PXL_20250525_210333153-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, 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This presentation encapsulates Chairman Stolyarov\u2019s most current thinking about where advocates of radical life extension can most effectively make a difference politically. It also provides his theory of change \u2013 how a persistent core (such&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2025\/11\/openly-transhumanist-politics-presentation\/\"> 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":[4890,40,1768,4734,5935,521,2325,308,5936,5937,1886,1346,105,5938,5939],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-transhumanism","tag-berkeley","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-gennady-stolyarov-ii","tag-healthspan","tag-levf","tag-life-extension","tag-lifespan","tag-longevity","tag-longevity-escape-velocity-foundation","tag-longevity-policy","tag-radical-life-extension","tag-strategy","tag-transhumanism-2","tag-vitalism","tag-vitalist-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655","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=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}