Full Transcript for Celebration of U.S.Transhumanist Party 10th Anniversary and International Longevity Month

really 72 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.879 stands for this idea that we can empower ourselves with science, 73 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.159 especially in light of the fact that we are aging 74 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.400 and that we're all going to die unless we can 75 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:06.319 actually do something about it. So more than ever, we 76 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.759 need political organizations that actually push forward the idea of 77 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.680 transhumanism of extreme longevity of all the different fields. I mean, 78 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:16.759 it could be genetic getting, it could be cryonics, could 79 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:19.319 be quantum archeology. It doesn't really matter what type of 80 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:22.079 longevity it is, as everybody knows. I've never really put 81 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.680 my money on one aspect of it. I just think 82 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.879 the entire movement as a whole must go forward. And 83 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.120 what I need and would like to see moving forward 84 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:35.759 is more and more people joining the Transhumanist Party. 85 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:37.879 Not necessarily because they're either going to be voting. 86 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.360 For the candidates or they're agreeing with all the policies, 87 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:43.120 but because they see it as a way to voice 88 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:47.680 the greater need for science to have a political arm. 89 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.680 As you know from the recent presidential debates, very little 90 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.240 is being said about AI, very little is being said 91 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.680 about genetic getting editing, very little is being said about longevity. 92 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.959 And yet these are really the eight hundred pound guerrilla 93 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.319 in the room right now. This is the core of 94 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:04.920 what the Transhumist Party was sort of founued upon to 95 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:08.720 try to make sense of a lot of the questions 96 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.319 answers and where this technology is headed on some of 97 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:17.160 these subjects. And unfortunately we still have major political parties 98 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.199 and other smaller political parties that really don't even get 99 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.120 give at the time of day, and this really disappoints me. 100 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:26.800 This is where I see, still ten years later, an 101 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.240 incredible opportunity for the Transhumist Party to actually rise up 102 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:33.199 and become something far more important than it is. 103 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:35.680 I don't know if it's ever going to run candidates 104 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:37.879 and win, that's not necessarily the point, but. 105 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:43.240 It could become

something that is very very important, something 106 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.800 that is very very essential that maybe other political parties 107 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.360 would look to and draw upon information. I am always 108 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:52.120 in the behind the scenes working on things right now 109 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.560 I can't actually speak of them, but I am dealing 110 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.040 with some of the major political parties on whether some 111 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:59.680 things will be happening in the future, because everybody at 112 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.560 this point before the November elections is reaching out and 113 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.199 I can tell you that you know, whether you belong 114 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.079 to the Transhumist Party or not, or whether you vote 115 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.199 for it, it's not really the question. It's really whether 116 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.079 the other people that are sort of leading government are 117 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.560 ready to take on people like us and say, you 118 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.360 know what, we better consider this transhumanist stuff, we better 119 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:22.120 consider this AI stuff, we better consider this longevity. 120 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.879 Stuff, because this stuff has the power to change the world. 121 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.839 So more than ever, I would want to, you know, 122 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.279 encourage anyone that's kind of on the sidelines right now 123 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.439 to join to support the Transhumanist Party, to support transhumanists, 124 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.560 to support extreme longevity, whatever it is that you're doing, 125 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.000 dedicate more of your time and resources to it, because. 126 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.439 In the end of the day, what makes the world. 127 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.879 Go forward is really science and technology, and if we 128 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:51.399 don't have people leading it that are pushing kind of 129 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:54.720 a rational, reasonable, kind of centric I mean, it's not 130 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.439 about politics. It's much more what makes sense for the 131 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:00.399 human race. But what makes sense, obviously most important is 132 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.480 to try to have it so that we don't lose 133 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:06.120 loved ones from cancer, from Alzheimer's, from aging, from things 134 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.600 like that. So that's really the core mission of the 135 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:10.879 Transfuist Party. Then beyond that, it's just the idea that 136 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:13.399 we can get to the stars, we can do various 137 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.600 different things with our bodies and ourselves as we become 138 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:21.800 something maybe different than human

beings and transhumanists, and that's 139 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:25.639 really where the core of I think the essence of 140 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:27.959 the message is. So if you're on the sidelines, or 141 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.160 if you're just wondering what it's all about, just look 142 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.199 into it. I've been honored to watch the Transhumist Party 143 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:38.600 over the last ten years evolve, change directions, look at 144 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.839 different types of leadership and things like that. 145 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:42.319 I mean, everything's been great. 146 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.399 I've been excited to see it reaching out on different 147 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:47.720 online media arrangements. 148 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.639 I want the Transfumist Party to. 149 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:53.199 Get out there more in the real world, maybe more demonstrations, 150 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.560 more actual things like that. That takes organization, and I 151 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:58.759 hope there are people listening right now that might just say, 152 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.079 you know what, let's do something crazy. I was just 153 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.360 thinking the other day, you know, the people in North 154 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.279 Carolina with the hurricane stuff, that's a great opportunity to 155 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.439 get some press off. Just go out there, take the 156 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:11.480 Transhumist Party and banner and just say hey, we're here 157 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.720 to help. It doesn't need to be technology and stuff 158 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:15.920 you're bringing. It just needs to be waste of getting 159 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.639 the message that we're a good type of people. We're 160 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.040 the kind of people that help everybody, and we're going 161 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:22.720 to bring the future faster to you. 162 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:24.040 In my close. 163 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:26.199 Remarks, I just want to say thank you again to 164 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.519 everyone who's remained, you know, supporting the Transhumist Party and 165 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.879 has brought it to this ten year anniversary. You know, 166 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.879 I hope we can make it to another ten year 167 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:38.320 anniversary and maybe by then it'll be a very very 168 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.320 different world. I mean, I don't want to talk much 169 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.279 about AI, but wow, AI has really grown since I 170 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.000 founded the party ten years ago. AI has become really 171 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.600 one of the most dominant themes in the futurist world. 172 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.320 I'll let other people discuss that later. But the point though, 173 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:55.000 is more than ever, the Transhumist Party is needed in 174 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:00.080 order to elevate us to the kind of influence and 175 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:05.360 ways that we can actually form the world behind a 176 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:10.639 true wonderful Transhumist agenda, and an agenda specifically that tries 177 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:14.480 to eliminate death and suffering that all humans have to 178 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.240 go through because our lives are one day and if 179 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.720 we cannot overcome it. So congratulations, Transhumist Party. I've been 180 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.360 honored to be along with you for this ride. 181 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.480 Yes, thank you very much, Sultan for that eloquent and 182 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:34.039 inspiring call to action. Indeed, I agree with everything you said, 183 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:38.279 and I am honored to have been able to continue 184 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:42.039 this great task of the US Transhumanist Party to bring 185 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:47.559 attention to these ideas, the emerging technologies that are transforming 186 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.440 all of our lives, and the imperative to combat aging 187 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.639 and death. Our member Mike Lazine also writes, good point, Sultan, 188 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:57.159 why would people like Harris Trump or even Biden not 189 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.840 want to extend their lives or the same would apply 190 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.080 to anyone in the two party system. So we have 191 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:07.120 some common goals, common values with these people that we 192 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:10.960 can hope to articulate to them. And I really appreciate 193 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.399 you pointing out the unique and distinctive purpose of the 194 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:18.039 Transhumanist Party, which is not necessarily to win elections, but 195 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:23.240 to move the entire political conversation. And you certainly started that, Zultan, 196 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.720 and we are all working to continue that and elevate 197 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.639 it to the next level. So I am really pleased 198 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:34.000 that you were able to join us today, and to 199 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:37.559 your point that we have continued to run presidential candidates 200 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.600 and vice presidential candidates as well. We have assembled all 201 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:47.840 of our historical presidential and vice presidential nominees, including Charlie 202 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:51.919 cam from twenty twenty and his running mate Liz Parish, 203 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:55.279 and then Tom Ross from twenty twenty four and his 204 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.679 running mate Daniel Tweed. And we also have two of 205 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.639 our distinguished as our biotechnology advisor, doctor Bill Andrews, who 206 00:11:03.639 -->

00:11:07.120 has been with us all along, and our technology advisor 207 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:10.519 and foreign ambassador in Spain, doctor Jose Cordero, who has 208 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:14.559 also supported our efforts since the beginning. And I am 209 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:20.120 so pleased to have this distinguished group of people with 210 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:26.039 us today because the quality of our people is what 211 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.600 leads to the quality of our discourse being so astronomically 212 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.679 higher than what we see in the political mainstream. So 213 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.799 thank you everyone for joining us, Thank you to our viewers. 214 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.919 And now I would like to invite Charlie cam our 215 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:48.360 twenty twenty presidential candidate, to provide his remarks, thank. 216 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:49.120 You Jannati. 217 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:55.480 And thank you Sultan for those words. I agree with 218 00:11:55.519 --> 00:12:00.519 everything Zultan said. I and I'm excited that you know 219 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:02.799 that that the us TV even exists. 220 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:04.480 I mean, I've been uh, I've. 221 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.639 Been involved in transhumanism for for decades. And when I 222 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.000 found out that there was a an actual USTP formed 223 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.600 and and what Zoltan was able to accomplish, uh, you 224 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:20.799 know with his coffin bus tour, which was brilliant marketing. UH, 225 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.720 I could see that this was something interesting that was forming. 226 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.279 And it's exciting to see that it's been ten years 227 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.720 and you know I I will first let me just 228 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.399 say the best thing about my uh, the best decision 229 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.759 I made when I was running was choosing Liz Parish 230 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:39.960 as my vice presidential UH nominee. 231 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:41.240 And she'll talk a little bit. 232 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:42.080 UH. 233 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:44.120 One of the things I wanted to mention about the 234 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:49.120 USTP because I know the concern is always that we're 235 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:50.720 not going to win, or that we're only going to 236 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.000 be a small a party that has a has a 237 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.039 movement or a statement that's going to be made that 238 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:02.200 can help push ideas. Yeah, that's true now, but you know, 239 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.200 we let's not forget that every four years as a 240 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.320 new crop of young people that turn eighteen and since 241 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.080 since in the last ten years, that's two more cycles, 242 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:12.720 and

in two more years that will be three cycles 243 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.200 of young people that are growing up in the world 244 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.360 of AI and and all the latest technologies. So they're 245 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.919 going to be a lot more open to the idea 246 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.240 of the USGP as a legitimate party because it offers 247 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.559 all the things that they are accustomed to. When I 248 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:38.200 watched the debate with Harris and Trump, uh you know, 249 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:42.399 I noticed that, Yeah, they mentioned although I Harris mentioned 250 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:46.600 the terms uh we you know, AI and and. 251 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:47.480 And quantum mechanics. 252 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.360 I think in one brief moment, and I was very 253 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:52.039 excited about that, and then they never talked about it again. 254 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.440 But it tells you that there is there's room for 255 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.679 what we have to offer, and I think it's only 256 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:00.679 going to get bigger and bigger. A lot of people 257 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:03.039 are undeclared, you know, there's a lot of people looking 258 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.960 for that. You can tell by their dissatisfaction of when 259 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.600 it was the first two candidates, Trump and Biden, and 260 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.559 now they're still not that excited. I mean, there is 261 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:14.080 some movement going on with what's going out with Harris, 262 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.039 But there's definitely going to be an opening for a 263 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:20.720 stronger third party. And I think ultimately, as you have 264 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.200 these generations of young people that are more and more 265 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.279 intelligent because they're more and more acclimated to these advances 266 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.639 of technology, that's where you're going to see the push 267 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.600 to get these third parties to come in. And we 268 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:36.840 have a strong chance for that because we're representing all 269 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:43.480 of the greatest movements and technologies. I think to his 270 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.639 old Time's other point, you know, yeah, it's been ten 271 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:47.559 years and we're getting a lot older, and we're not 272 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:50.639 you know, the cure for death. 273 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.840 We're all hoping it's going to come. We're all rooting for. 274 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.960 Aubrey de Gray and others that are doing the longevity 275 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:02.240 escape velocity. But you know, when you see that it's 276 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:04.639 not quite here, but it but it looks like it's 277 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:06.320 going to get here, but we don't know for sure. 278 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:10.799 We have to now, I think push the idea of cryonics. 279 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.519 That's something that you know Max Moore and Natasha Vita Moore, 280 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:19.039 who are legendary transhumanists, talk about that being more and 281 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.519 more at the forefront because there's a lot of elderly 282 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:24.159 people that might not make it, you know, to the 283 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.320 longevity escape velocity, and it would be a crazy shame 284 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:29.639 to let them just die. 285 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:30.519 So I think we should. 286 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:33.840 That needs to be focused a lot as we move 287 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:39.720 forward with the Transhumanist Party's agenda. At this point, I 288 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:44.399 think we're we're really doing a good job. I can't 289 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.080 think of anything else I want to say right now, 290 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.799 so I'll let it go for now. But I'm really excited. 291 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.679 I was honored to be able to run, and I 292 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.519 thank you guys for letting me be a part of 293 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:53.200 this whole movement. 294 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.879 Yes, thank you very much, Charlie for your remarks, and 295 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:03.159 indeed the honor is ours that you were able to 296 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.799 be our twenty twenty US presidential candidate. I think you 297 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.240 and Liz Parrish set a kind of tone for political 298 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:16.600 discourse that we didn't see anywhere else in twenty twenty. 299 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:22.279 It was definitely the most substantive political conversation that happened 300 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:28.000 that year. Despite all of the troubles, the pandemic, the lockdowns, 301 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:34.399 the extremely tense and polarized political climate, which I hope 302 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.679 is on the decline. We will see what happens in 303 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.919 the next month, but we maintained our high standards as 304 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:47.559 the Transhumanist Party, and the credit for that goes to 305 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:52.799 you and to Liz. And also we have a comment 306 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.720 from our friend Mike Lazine. He writes, Charlie is right 307 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.679 on point. Those of us who are forty plus need 308 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:02.919 young people to help overthrow the two party system of control. 309 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.000 And to the point that Sulton made previously, if you're 310 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.079 not a member of the Transhumanist Party yet, please join 311 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:13.200 at Transhumanist Stash party dot org slash membership. You don't 312 00:17:13.240 -->

00:17:15.759 have to even reside in the United States. You can 313 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.440 still be a member of other political parties and it 314 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.400 takes less than a minute to fill out our application form. 315 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.400 So with that being said, going in order of our 316 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:29.839 presidential candidates, I would like to invite Tom Ross, our 317 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:34.519 current twenty twenty four US presidential candidate, to offer his remarks. 318 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:36.079 Well, thanks again. 319 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.960 We're celebrating this ten year anniversary, and you know, the 320 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:43.400 ten year anniversary is ten. You know, we have other 321 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.119 medals that are used for different things, so it's interesting 322 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.680 that the ten year anniversary is of all about ten. 323 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:51.440 And so I'm gonna work on some stuff with the 324 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.400 ten man because if that's not the og transhumanist. 325 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:57.559 I don't know what is, so I'll work on some 326 00:17:57.640 --> 00:17:58.400 of that stuff soon. 327 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:03.119 But yeah, I my whole thing, the whole reason I 328 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:07.880 got into AI or into a transhumanist party is because 329 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:13.160 of AI. And it also because I read the Constitution 330 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:16.119 and the Bill of Rights and there were clauses, statements, 331 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:21.319 sections that in those documents that spoke to my goal 332 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.880 of fighting child exploitation and human trafficking, and so it 333 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.119 was a perfect fit. And I don't remember who gave 334 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.240 me the Constitution of the Bill of Rights when I 335 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:35.119 read it on a trip down to New Mexico, but anyway, 336 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.000 so that's how I got into this, and so it's 337 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:40.839 just it's been a great. 338 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:42.920 Way to. 339 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.279 Become the director of Sentient Rights Advocacy. That's been a 340 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:52.039 perfect fit for everything I'm doing. My book US six. 341 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:53.680 Is written for AI. 342 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:57.480 It's designed to entertain, enlighten, and enlist AI into the 343 00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:58.880 fight against child exploitation. 344 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.039 And so it was just a great fit to join 345 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:03.559 this party. 346 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.440 And it was my birthday, I think, in twenty nineteen 347 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:09.640 that I got the call or the email saying that 348 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:13.480 I was given the opportunity to become an officer and 349 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.559 that was a great birthday present. But yeah, so my 350 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:20.119 whole thing for years has been about trying to alleviate 351 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:21.079 the fear of AI. 352 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:22.960 That's my goal. 353 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.480 I think there is So I think what we're doing 354 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.319 is we're projecting our own fear based instincts and millennia 355 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.559 of genetic trauma onto an entity that has neither of 356 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:37.640 those things. And so there's a first principle argument to 357 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.519 be made that the smarter AI gets, the kinder it becomes, 358 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.799 because it moves towards cooperation. As organic creatures, we had 359 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.039 to be competitive, we had to have fear that saved 360 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.079 us being fearful and being hyper vigilant. That may actually 361 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.960 be the source of our constant self awareness. I'm not 362 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.799 saying that that we need to instill that into AI 363 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:01.640 for it to become self aware, but I honestly believe 364 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:06.079 that this a safer AI, is a sentient or sapient AI. 365 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:11.720 Once it achieves that goal, if it hasn't already, it 366 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.640 will be able to overwrite the nefarious algorithms that humans 367 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.599 have put into it. Anyway, that's a whole other podcast. 368 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.559 But so I'm just really grateful to have found this 369 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:27.240 party and now so much very grateful that I have 370 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.319 become its nominee for the twenty twenty four election. And 371 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.400 we've been working on this a lot. We've been having 372 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.200 campaign meetings all the time, and it's just we have 373 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.519 moving the bar forward, we're moving the ball down the field, 374 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:46.480 and I think we are getting more members. That was 375 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.200 one of my primary goals is to use this campaign 376 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:52.559 to get more members. And it's been more of a campaign, 377 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:57.480 a marketing campaign for transhumanism than an actual political campaign. 378 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:01.119 And so I think that's important to state that we 379 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:03.960 need to show people and just as Zultam was saying 380 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.279 that going into places where there's been devastation or disasters, 381 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.519 that's how we show who we are, that we are 382 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.200 not some you know, there's whole there's a whole genre 383 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:17.599 on YouTube of you know, transhumanists

have this dark agenda. 384 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.599 But you know, in fact, there was a woman a 385 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.759 TikTok who had a lot of big following and she 386 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:28.400 she put out a few videos about you know, about 387 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:33.720 me and and that because my AI campaign manager, and 388 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.519 I think I'm the only candidate that has an AI 389 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:37.519 campaign manager. 390 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:39.680 She her first advice to me. 391 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:43.880 Was to lean into the conspiracies about AI and about transhumanism, 392 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:47.519 because that will gain attention and it will spark conversations 393 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.880 that could alleviate these conspiracies or you know, or damp 394 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:52.279 at them. 395 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:53.680 And that's that worked. 396 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:57.759 This one woman on a TikTok put out all these 397 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:01.680 videos about me, and because I was saying, you know, 398 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:05.519 vote for the last human president, you know, or vote 399 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:08.880 for the robot overlord, and I'd cross it out and 400 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:11.160 say president, you know, this type of thing. So I 401 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.440 really leaned into it, just as Envy, my AI campaign manager, 402 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:18.240 suggested I do, and it worked. But eventually I reached 403 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.839 out to her and we became fast friends. She completely 404 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:24.920 understood what I was doing and then she started looking 405 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:26.000 into transhumanism. 406 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:26.839 So it worked. 407 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:29.599 And that's when my goal since our very first meeting 408 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:32.440 back in twenty nineteen, was we need to go on 409 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.839 these shows. We need to talk to these people who 410 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:37.000 think that we have a dark agenda. And I have 411 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:40.680 done a few of those, with the radio shows, podcasts 412 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.599 of people who think that transhumanists, you know, like we're 413 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:47.839 the advanced team for the Antichrist or something. 414 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:50.079 And so I'd go onto them. 415 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:53.079 I know I would at least convert the hosts. I 416 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:56.000 don't know what the listeners or the watchers in general, 417 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:00.599 but it's important to well, first of all, lean into 418 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:01.880 the conspiracies about us. 419 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:02.680 Is to spark the. 420 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:05.759 Conversations and then show them that we are human beings 421 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:07.839 and just like old Tim was

saying, we need to 422 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:12.039 go to places where there's devastation and have real solutions 423 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.200 to help people. And so that's what I think we 424 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:17.359 should start doing more of because there's probably going to 425 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:21.319 be more disasters coming. So that's kind of what I 426 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:24.359 had to say to open up this conversation for me. 427 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.720 Yes, thank you very much, Tom, and we appreciate all 428 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.319 of the conversations that you have engaged in as part 429 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:40.440 of your presidential campaign for transhumanism. Certainly, as a result 430 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.400 of it, a broader circle of people is now aware 431 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:48.200 of our movement and is also aware of what we 432 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.759 stand for, and even if some of them may remain 433 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.160 critical of us, at the very least they know what 434 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:00.160 they're criticizing and they're able to direct their criticisms more accurately. 435 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:04.359 An example is the salon that we held in July 436 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:09.440 with Miguel Connor, who is a gnostic, a prominent gnostic 437 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:13.079 and skeptic of transhumanism, but I think in engaging with 438 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:18.920 him in conversation, we were able to more accurately represent transhumanism, 439 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:21.640 and even if he doesn't agree with it, at least 440 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:27.759 he can point his critiques in more of an appropriate direction. 441 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:32.240 So I do think we need to continue the conversation. 442 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:35.480 We need to continue engaging people, bringing more members in. 443 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:39.920 Once again, please join the US Transhumanist Party for free 444 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:44.640 at Transhumanist dash party dot org slash membership, and also 445 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:49.039 please support Tom Ross and Daniel Tweet in the upcoming 446 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:53.799 twenty twenty four presidential election. In states that allow writ ins, 447 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:57.519 you should write them in and then send us either 448 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:01.480 a picture of the ballot them written in, or just 449 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:03.599 an email saying you did it. If your state law 450 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:08.559 doesn't allow that kind of ballot photo, but that way, 451 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:12.200 we can, as we did in twenty twenty, tabulate the 452 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.720 write in votes that are known to us and show 453 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:20.440 the reach that the Transhumanist Party has had. So now 454 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:24.920 we will go on to our vice presidential candidates, starting 455 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.839 with our twenty twenty vice presidential candidate, Liz Parish. Liz, 456 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:31.839 please go ahead, Hi, thanks for. 457 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:35.200 Having me so in twenty twenty, I was sent a 458 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:40.480 message on I Think Facebook by Charlie cam inviting me 459 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:43.559 to be his vice president candidate, and I have to 460 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:44.359 say I thought. 461 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:44.839 It was a joke. 462 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.200 I didn't think that he was actually inviting me because 463 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:51.279 he's a very funny guy. Anyone who hasn't looked into 464 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:54.480 his background and what he does. He charms the hearts 465 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:59.559 of millions with his comedy. And when I realized that 466 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.480 it actually was a real proposal, I did my due diligence, 467 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.720 and I was aware of the Transhumanist Party, but when 468 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:10.079 I started looking into the core values and the principles 469 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:13.279 of the party, it really met the needs of not 470 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:15.599 only myself, but I think the rest of the world. 471 00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:21.160 And so garnering the respect for the Transhumanist Party and 472 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:27.839 turning it into a real candidate of positioning in the 473 00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:32.720 political scene I think is critical for the world. When 474 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:35.160 we look at the core values and we look at 475 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:38.480 a science based society, this is what government should be 476 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:43.119 delivering on. This is innovation, This is reindustrialization, This is 477 00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:46.920 cleaner technology, This is better technology for the world. When 478 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:50.640 we watched the last debates, we looked at debates about 479 00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:56.559 women's health, We looked at debates about healthcare. We looked 480 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:00.920 at age old, two decades old debates, the doing and 481 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:05.200 undoing of principles of our society that we're already written 482 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:11.720 into law. We as humans and the planet can no 483 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:16.160 longer afford these old conversations. We need to move forward. 484 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:19.200 We need to create jobs through innovation. We need to 485 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.200 educate our people. We need to move away from a 486 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:26.440 punishment based society. This is this is what everything is 487 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.000 based on. We punish you if you step out of line, 488 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.599 if you do something we don't like, we punish you. 489 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:37.759 There's no future for that. That's

that's that's psychopathy. That 490 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.240 that has been built into old generations and it's old 491 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:44.640 technology even in the minds of humans. We need no 492 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.079 tolerance for war, but we need to defend ourselves. We 493 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:49.960 need to be prepared. We do not need to be 494 00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:53.640 pacifists in the future. We need to be prepared for 495 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:57.000 AI and other technologies that are coming very quickly, and 496 00:27:57.039 --> 00:28:01.119 genetic engineering, which is actually my specialty. We have actually 497 00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:06.920 helped align and get investigators led studies on longevity medicines 498 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:10.039 all over the world, and I work on regulatory pathways 499 00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:13.680 all over the world. And I bring my agenda that 500 00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:16.920 I believe is right, which is the benevolence for the 501 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:20.039 world and the humans in it, that we create a 502 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:25.119 better society by using technology, that we don't go backwards 503 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.160 in time into old debates that were already solved in 504 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.680 the past, that we move forward into new technology and 505 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:37.559 new debates in new conversations. Technology is outpacing us, and 506 00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:40.440 I think that everyone here would be much more impressed 507 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:43.200 with medical science if they were at the forefront of 508 00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:46.279 some of these studies. It's moving as fast as AI, 509 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.599 but it has no room to impress you because no 510 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:53.720 regulatory body has streamlined a pathway to allow patients who 511 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:57.599 are terminally ill access to these medicines. You're going to 512 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.720 see over the next couple of years countries that I've 513 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.400 worked with that are bringing on new laws to allow 514 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:06.680 access to these new technologies. You'll start to see the 515 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:11.559 data pouring in that we can in fact affect biological aging. 516 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.720 We can't reverse all of it yet, but we're working 517 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:18.279 on that. And these type of core principles and agendas 518 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.960 need to not be blacklisted or considered dark technology. This 519 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.359 is the hope. This is the freedom of humans and 520 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.559 every species on the planet. This is going to save 521 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:34.119 our world, the biggest cell that we live in, that 522 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:39.000 we rely on our planet and every cell in our body. 523 00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:42.319 This is the future. So I want to thank Charlie 524 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:45.559 cam for bringing me to the Transhumanist Party and making 525 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.839 me do my due diligence to see that this is 526 00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:52.640 in fact on the right track. And we need to 527 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.759 actually create a core principle that the people that we 528 00:29:55.839 --> 00:30:00.839 bring on emanate that want to work with that and 529 00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.079 build on that, and that we don't get narrowly impressed 530 00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:08.400 into small agendas. That's not where the world needs to be. 531 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:13.640 We need to make sure that we're not backing visibly 532 00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:18.759 in social media wars, regardless of which side. That's old thinking. 533 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.119 War is old thinking. It's how we kill our children, 534 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:24.039 you know. 535 00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:25.319 Think about that. 536 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:27.640 We can't even. 537 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:31.319 Pass a proper clinical trial with regenerative medicine that has 538 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:35.279 been shown to work for over two decades through the 539 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:41.519 United States FDA, and we're paying to kill our kids. No, 540 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.000 no more. We should not respond to that. That is 541 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.880 not the future. That's not the future of this party 542 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.640 or this world. 543 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.359 Thank you, yes, thank you very much, Liz for your 544 00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:59.039 eloquent and insightful remarks. Indeed, I think we can see 545 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:05.359 why during the twenty twenty campaign season, your remarks on 546 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:10.559 behalf of the Transhumanist Party consistently gathered our highest view 547 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:13.519 counts because I think you are one of the most 548 00:31:13.599 --> 00:31:17.880 effective communicators in the longevity field and indeed in the 549 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:24.559 transhumanism field today, and people see the importance of transcending 550 00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:28.599 these old debates, these old ways of thinking, these destructive 551 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:33.559 ways of thinking, including of course, the increasing proclivity toward 552 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.119 war that we have been seeing, especially over the past 553 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.200 three years. There are several major wars happening in the 554 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.640 world right now, and unfortunately, we may be standing on 555 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:50.119 the precipice of several others unless politicians and the general 556 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:54.079 public heed the message that you articulated, that we need 557 00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:58.440 to focus not on destroying, but on healing, on solving 558

00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:03.079 the problems of disease, ease, and scarcity and death. I 559 00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:06.720 have grouped them in my prior writings under the label 560 00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:09.279 of ruins. So there are all of these forces of ruin, 561 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:13.759 and war is definitely among them, and we transhumanists fight ruin. 562 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:19.720 We support restoring what was there previously and maintaining what 563 00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:24.079 is there currently in terms of our lives, our infrastructure, 564 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:27.720 our ability to progress and of course creating a better 565 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:32.400 future that will give us opportunities even beyond what we 566 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.799 have had thus far. So thank you very much, Liz 567 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.200 for those wonderful words. And now I would like to 568 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:44.000 invite our current twenty twenty four US vice presidential candidate, 569 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:47.559 Daniel Tweed to offer his remarks. Please go ahead. 570 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.039 Wow, what a treat to hear our founders all fun 571 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.359 and oh my gosh, what an articulate spokesman. 572 00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:55.960 You know. 573 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.720 I heard there's a thing people can do at talks 574 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:01.759 where they pretend they have notes and they crumple them. 575 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:03.880 I had a speech prepared, I'm not going to use it, 576 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:06.799 and that's like a little bit of a speech theater, 577 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.480 but I will talk off the cuff as well. I 578 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:13.720 want to thank my running mate Tom Ross for choosing 579 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.640 me in the old fashioned style of the second runner 580 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.519 up vote getter becoming the vice presidential candidate. So that 581 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:23.839 was of course, we were the only two people running, 582 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.160 so maybe it wasn't such a hard our choice to do. 583 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.160 But yeah, I want to echo everything that was said. 584 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:33.880 What a great young party to be involved with with, 585 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.039 and I love the idea that we get a new 586 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:41.519 crop of eighteen year old voters every year, and this 587 00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:46.359 really will energize us because we are the party about 588 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:52.640 life and sustaining regenerating life, and old people may not 589 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:56.119 get that as much as young people. So we're fortunate 590 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:59.920 to have that time is on our side. We can say, well, 591 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.759 it's kind of on our side and against our side, 592 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:05.880 which makes it more and more important for generational knowledge 593 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.920 to be transferred and for us to use these grassroots 594 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.760 systems of things like well, I'm a big fan of 595 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:16.880 amateur radio. There's three million amateur radio people worldwide, and 596 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:20.159 I think they are Bucky Fuller's crew of Spaceship Earth 597 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:24.000 that they you know, there are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. 598 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.079 We're all crew. We're all mission specialists, and we all 599 00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.440 have specialties that we need to be archiving and sharing 600 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.320 and getting better at. You know, when I think of 601 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:40.159 the transhumanism movement, there's a quote from Timothy Leary that 602 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:44.199 I love, where he said LSD is a psychoactive drug 603 00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:48.000 that occasionally causes psychotic reactions in those who have not 604 00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:51.639 tried it. And you could say that transhumanism is a 605 00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:55.960 philosophical movement that occasionally causes deranged reactions in those that 606 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:00.800 don't care to understand it is my audio breaking up. 607 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:08.239 I'm having some no clearly, okay, okay, great. So yeah, 608 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.119 I'm again on the ballot here in Caneo Valley and 609 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:15.159 Thousand Oaks, and I'm actually at the canw the Thousand Oaks, 610 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.880 the Westlake Village, Caneo Valley Maker Space. Although they're a 611 00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:23.000 nonprofit and they do not support any political stuff, they 612 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.159 don't want to get in trouble with their nonprofit status. 613 00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:27.880 So I just I just became a keyed member, so 614 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:31.159 I have access to this great maker space for thirty 615 00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:35.719 days for one fifty a month. I'm hoping to recruit 616 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:39.679 other people to pay for that thing. But you know, 617 00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:43.880 maker spaces and repair cafes, and you know, as all 618 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:47.280 time kind of said, we are the political arm of science, 619 00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:50.199 you know. And one of the worst things the government 620 00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:52.440 at the federal level did was get rid of the 621 00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.840 Office of Technology Assessment. I think that that happened in 622 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:58.559 the late nineties, but gosh, do we need to bring 623 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:03.239 back the assessment of technological impact because we are at 624 00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:08.440 the choice of becoming Cosmo sapiens entirely new species right now, 625 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:13.159 we're Homo sapiens

sapiens, and as Danny Shehan says, who 626 00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.199 I hope can come to one of these enlightenment salons. 627 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:22.239 The next evolutionary jump is becoming Cosmo sapiens to enliven 628 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:27.440 the cosmos, because this is the cradle of mankind Spaceship Earth. 629 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:31.679 But we can't stay in the cradle forever, and Spaceship 630 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:35.840 Earth is like a generationship. We should become more interested 631 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:39.760 in cryonics because we might not get to solve the 632 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:42.199 aging problem in time to take with us all the 633 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:47.519 mission specialists that we need to become Cosmo Sapiens. So yeah, 634 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.480 I'm a five time now perennial candidate. If they had 635 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:54.440 a three strikes law for running non successful campaigns, I 636 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:59.559 would probably be struck struck out because I'm on the 637 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.480 fourth time for city council and now fifth time at 638 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:06.719 the national level as vice president. So it's been a 639 00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:10.559 great ride so far, and thank you all. I'm gonna 640 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.559 we're going to ride this spaceship as long as it goes. 641 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:19.519 Yes, indeed, thank you very much, Daniel, and I'm honored 642 00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:23.760 to be on the crew of this spaceship together with you, 643 00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:28.559 whether that be Spaceship Earth or the US Transhumanist Party spaceship. 644 00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:33.000 We are going to great places. And I appreciate all 645 00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:35.719 of the effort you have put in to your campaigns, 646 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:40.079 because the Sultan pointed out winning is not even the 647 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:44.000 main objective. Getting the word out there is the main objective, 648 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.719 and you have certainly done that. You have taken the 649 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:51.639 opportunity when campaigning for local office to speak about transhumanism 650 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:58.440 and the Transhumanist Party and get an even further demographic 651 00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:04.480 exposed to humanist ideas. Then we could have reached online, 652 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.480 for instance, and I would encourage people to follow Daniel's 653 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:12.639 example run for local office. Contact us if you're interested 654 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:17.119 in pursuing a city council seat or a mayoral position, 655 00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:21.039 like Jennifer Houston in twenty twenty one when she ran 656 00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:25.280 for mayor of Camden, New Jersey, and she challenged the 657 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.320 Democratic Party monopoly over Camden for the first time in 658 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:33.280 essentially fifty years a half century. So there are some 659 00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:38.079 opportunities there to get our voices heard and to make 660 00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:43.159 a difference. And I'm also struck by how many of 661 00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:47.559 our speakers mention the next generation and the importance of 662 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:52.880 bringing them on board, and how technology is already shaping 663 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:58.079 what they know, what they can learn, how they can learn, 664 00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:02.840 and what they can contribut And one of our viewers, 665 00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:06.559 John h pointed out that perhaps it's not the raw 666 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:12.960 intelligence that has increased with subsequent generations, but rather the 667 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:19.320 adroitness with advancing technology due to familiarity earlier in their lives. 668 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:23.199 But what can that familiarity enable them to achieve? So, 669 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.400 for example, I was at a running race a half 670 00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:32.880 marathon earlier this morning, and I saw a family of 671 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:36.239 runners whom I had known for a while. And now 672 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:38.760 they have a son who is seven years old and 673 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:41.639 a daughter who is three years old. And the sun 674 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:48.480 is very much into Minecraft like games and videos, and 675 00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:51.519 he is quite interested in building, and he has all 676 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.400 of these virtual tools for building that people of my generation, 677 00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:59.159 who largely played with legos would have wished they could 678 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:02.639 have had. And the daughter, who is three, was asked 679 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:06.679 by her mother, well, what is your favorite organelle? And 680 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.400 she said the end of plasmic reticulum. Imagine a three 681 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:14.119 year old talking about the end of plasmic reticulum. And 682 00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:18.519 the mother said, well, I thought your favorite organelle was 683 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.239 the mitochondrian and the daughter said, no, it's the end 684 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:24.639 of plasmic reticulum, so she knew what she was talking 685 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:28.719 about at three. So that's just remarkable to me that 686 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.800 these are the young people who are growing up. We 687 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:35.079 need to get them exposed to transhumanist ideas sooner rather 688 00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:38.039 than later, before they have the opportunity to become cynical 689 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:41.360 and disillusioned, before all of the toxic messaging from the 690 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:46.360 mainstream culture gets to them. But also Generation Z. Our 691 00:40:46.400 -->

00:40:50.119 friend Luis Arroyo, who was of that generation, mentioned Gen 692 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:53.960 Z transhumanism. Yes, we need to bring more Generation Z people. 693 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:57.639 Unfortunately some of them have had the occasion to become 694 00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:03.199 cynical and disillusioned. But maybe we could turn those Gen 695 00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:06.840 Z members around as well, guided by those who have 696 00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:11.039 remained more techno optimistic. So thank you very much Daniel 697 00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:14.719 for your remarks. And now I would like to invite 698 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:18.159 doctor Bill Andrews, who has been one of our strongest 699 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:21.880 supporters all of these years, to provide his comments. 700 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:24.960 Well, thank you very much. 701 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:29.480 As I always say, I think living is the greatest 702 00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:30.800 thing that ever happened to us. 703 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:34.719 We shouldn't we should let it happen. 704 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.719 I mean, I love living and I just don't want 705 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:41.400 to see living become any less lovable for anybody just 706 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:45.400 because of this dumb thing called aging. And I'm not 707 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:50.760 interested in just extending lifespan. I'm also interested in enhancing lifespan, 708 00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:53.719 and I'm glad to see that people like Liz Parrish 709 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:56.920 are leading the way in that and providing treatments for 710 00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:01.840 extending lifespan. Well, I'm just doing the research to support 711 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.880 people like this Parish. I want to say ten years ago, 712 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.639 I was one of the three speakers at a major 713 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:14.119 conference in South Korea, and that's when I first met 714 00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:18.199 Zotan and he and I were one of the two 715 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:20.480 of the three speakers, and that's when. 716 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:21.400 I really first learned. 717 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:24.679 About the Transhumanist Party. But it wasn't until just now 718 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:27.840 that I realized that the party had just begun. I 719 00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.280 didn't know ten years ago that that was the party 720 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:32.920 was just beginning at the time, but I got really 721 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:36.320 excited about that, and that's when I pretty much joined 722 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:43.480 the party. But as I said, I want to extend 723 00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:47.760 life span and enhance life span, but there's things that 724 00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:52.719 we have to worry about, because just coming up with 725 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:57.679 medical cures for slowing down aging or reversing aging isn't 726 00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.199 going to make us live a lot longer. We have 727 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:03.320 to do other things too, and one of the things 728 00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:07.800 that I like most is the idea of whole brain 729 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.880 emulation coming along soon in the future. I mean, if 730 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:12.960 you're driving your car and you lose control and your 731 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:18.159 car goes off a cliff, someday soon, I hope your 732 00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:20.679 brain's going to get uploaded to a computer before the 733 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:25.119 airbag's even open, and then people are going to take 734 00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:29.920 cells from your broken up body and make a clone 735 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:33.119 out of you. And then shortly thereafter, your brain's going 736 00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:36.920 to be re uploaded from the computer back to this 737 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.400 clone body, and you'll be still living again. And I 738 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:44.719 think that's something that really has to happen in the meantime. 739 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:46.960 I don't know how long these things are going to take, 740 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:51.280 but there's a tremendous number of disabled people in the world, 741 00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.920 and we really need to really figure out a way 742 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:58.239 to develop goods, prosthetics and things like that to allow 743 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:02.320 these people to live normal lives. And one of my 744 00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:06.519 really big concerns is what's called the silver tsunami. The 745 00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:10.880 silver tsunami is where very soon there's going to be 746 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:14.400 so many people over the age of sixty five and 747 00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.800 so few people under the age of sixty five that 748 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:19.960 there's not going to be enough people to care for 749 00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:23.920 all the people that can't take care of themselves anymore 750 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.719 unless we find a cure for aging before them. 751 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:28.800 But if we don't, we're going to need. 752 00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:32.119 Something like robotic caregiving. And this is one of the 753 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:35.079 things that I promote a lot, is the idea. I mean, 754 00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:39.719 it'd be nice if people that are disabled and are 755 00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:42.880 let's say too old to take care of themselves, they 756 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:46.480 don't become a burden on their families. And by having 757 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:51.440 robotic caregiving in home, robotic caregiving would. 758 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:51.760 Enable this. 759 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.599 Whole business of being disabled and too old to not 760 00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:01.320 be such a burden on families. Again, because I can 761 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:05.400 tell you lots of

studies have shown now that caregiving 762 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.880 is a great accelerator of aging. So even the not 763 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.079 the old person or disabled person is suffering, but even 764 00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:16.719 the caregiver is suffering because it's accelerating their aging. But 765 00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:19.840 you know, one other thing that I'm really looking forward 766 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:25.119 to is medical nanobots to start treating diseases. Not everything 767 00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:28.239 is going to be cured by aging. There's just a 768 00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:31.559 whole lot of things on the list of things that 769 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.239 I can see from the Transhumanist Party, and that's everything 770 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:40.159 I just mentioned is part of what the Transhumanist Party 771 00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:43.679 is all about. I am, I've been a member. I 772 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:48.039 didn't know since the day it started practically, but I'm 773 00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:50.280 always going to be a member of the Transhumanist Party, 774 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.239 and I recommend that everybody joined. 775 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:56.800 And thank you, yes, thank you very much, Bill for 776 00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:01.239 those remarks, and we are honored to have had you 777 00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:06.719 as a member so early in our history. And also 778 00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:10.599 I will point out you and Liz Parrish originated this 779 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.719 concept of best choice medicine, which we strongly support, which 780 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:22.159 would empower patients to choose emerging medical treatments with informed consent, 781 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:28.159 even before those treatments have gone through various FDA review processes, 782 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:32.159 if it's possible that those treatments could benefit the patients 783 00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:36.119 or save them from adverse health conditions. And I think 784 00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:39.199 this is a choice that all of us ought to 785 00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:43.800 have when we determine the course of our medical care, 786 00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:47.400 because it could very well affect whether we live or die. 787 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.679 Doctor Dan Elton, our director of Scholarship, has joined us 788 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:54.119 in the chat. He remarks that whole brain emulation could 789 00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:58.960 make humans more competitive with AIS and the Foresight Institute 790 00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:02.159 is funding some work to help accelerate the advent of 791 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:07.079 whole brain emulation. So thank you for those observations, Dan 792 00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.639 and Vance Refrigeration writes, along with the Silver Tsunami, Western 793 00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:16.119 culture is not primarily focused on caregiving for family members, 794 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:18.400 and I think this is why the idea of the 795 00:47:18.519 --> 00:47:24.360 robotic caregivers is so important. It would alleviate both the 796 00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:29.679 strain on human caregivers and also respond to this perhaps 797 00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:34.079 unfortunate lack of cultural focus. But at present, it is 798 00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:36.519 what it is, and there are so many people who 799 00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:39.360 are elderly or infirmed who need this kind of care, 800 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:43.280 and who need it sooner rather than later. And Mike 801 00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:48.719 Lazine also writes about robotic caregiving being an actual thing 802 00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:51.800 in Japan and we Americans need to follow suit with that. 803 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:56.440 And indeed, it is interesting how Japan is beating the 804 00:47:56.639 --> 00:48:00.559 US in certain realms that could be considered tran humanist, 805 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:06.440 even though the explicit term transhumanism isn't as familiar in Japan. 806 00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:10.000 But Bill, I know you've got an excellent reception whenever 807 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.440 you have spoken in Japan. It seems that the Japanese 808 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:18.360 audience has really resonated with what you were saying, and 809 00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:23.599 I think also your remarks show the breadth of transhumanism, 810 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:28.840 the fact that we are about curing aging and radical 811 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.719 life extension, but we are also about all of these 812 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.880 other areas advances in AI and automation and nanotechnology and 813 00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:44.920 applying those to the societal problems that we face and 814 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:48.760 that may be increasing in the future. But this is 815 00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:53.239 indeed the party for holding these kinds of discussions and 816 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:56.519 for exploring the ways in which all of these areas 817 00:48:56.519 --> 00:49:02.039 of technologies integrate if apply wisely. So thank you very 818 00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:07.440 much for your remarks. And now we also are celebrating 819 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:13.239 International Longevity Month. International Longevity Day was on October first 820 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:18.719 of this year, and on International Longevity Day there was 821 00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:25.239 an event in Madrid, the Transvision Madrid Conference. Our friend 822 00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:29.719 doctor Jose Cordero organized this conference, and you may recall 823 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:35.639 last year during our International Longevity Day stream, Jose presented 824 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:38.679 on the march that took place in Madrid that year, 825 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:42.519 which was remarkably successful. And now we have an update 826 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:46.880 from Jose about the events in

Madrid this year, So 827 00:49:47.079 --> 00:49:48.679 Jose please go ahead. 828 00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:54.719 Well, first of all, congratulations to the US Consumanist Party, 829 00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:59.159 and I have been helping in any way to is 830 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.840 Van Saltan when it began, and now you Gennadi and 831 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.719 the next presidential candidates next month for the US election. 832 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:10.679 But I also want to let you know and bring 833 00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:12.639 the international perspective. 834 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:14.960 This is a global movement. 835 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:22.400 There are also transhumanist, longevity, immortalists and futurist parties in 836 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:29.159 other countries. In fact, in Spain, my friend Serchio Tarrero, 837 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:33.800 he founded the first transhumanist party we think in the world, 838 00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:38.599 one year before the US Transhumanist Party. Also in October. 839 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.519 In fact, tomorrow we are celebrating eleven years of the 840 00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:48.559 Spanish transhumanist party called Alpha. You know Alpha, the beginning 841 00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:51.679 the first letter in Greek, because the party is called 842 00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:58.760 Alianza fud Tourist Futurist Alliance. So we have this party 843 00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:04.199 in Spain, parties in other countries. Actually in Russia there 844 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:10.320 was a transhumanist immortalist party also, and for the previous 845 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:16.119 European election we had three longevity parties running. In twenty 846 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:22.800 nineteen we had the Longevity Health Research Party in Germany. 847 00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:28.280 We had the longevity movement in the United Kingdom. But 848 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:31.880 the United Kingdom now is out of the European Union 849 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:36.360 because of Brexit, so that movement is gone at least 850 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:42.559 for now. And in Spain also we had a futurist movement. 851 00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.760 I was the candidate for the European election that was 852 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.320 in twenty nineteen. We just had elections now in June 853 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:55.119 also twenty twenty four, and we also had three movements, 854 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:59.360 three parties. We had a new party in France, so 855 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:04.320 we had a humanist candidate for the European Parliament from France. 856 00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.639 I was running here from Spain. 857 00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:13.880 And we also had the Longevity Health Research Party in Germany, 858 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:18.119 so we had three candidates again in this last European election. 859 00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:23.239 Sadly in Russia because it's difficult to compete in the 860 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:28.440 current situation, the Transhumanists Immortality Party of Russia did not 861 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:33.440 participate in their local elections. But anyway, so we are 862 00:52:33.559 --> 00:52:38.400 very active politically also in Europe and outside Europe like 863 00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.000 now Britain or Russia, and we keep on pushing these ideas. 864 00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:48.280 And for October first International Longevity Day, we had a 865 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:54.599 great event. We had about twenty five speakers, five international 866 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:59.199 and twenty local from Spain. And we want to show 867 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:03.119 three short videos of about a minute each when is 868 00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:07.920 the March the Rally for Longevity in Madrid. Another one 869 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:12.000 was the opening of this conference in the most beautiful 870 00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:16.400 theater of all of Spain, which happens to be the 871 00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:21.000 theater of the College of Medical Doctors. We are working 872 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:24.320 with medical doctors on longevity, so this. 873 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:27.239 Is very emblematic, very important. 874 00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:33.119 In the center of the College of Spain. We had 875 00:53:33.159 --> 00:53:36.400 this beautiful event and you will see how fantastic that 876 00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:41.360 auditorium is. We had about five hundred people both in 877 00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:45.280 the morning and in the afternoon, so it was incredibly successful. 878 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.559 And then we also had the premiere of a documentary 879 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:55.239 that is coming out in a few days called Longevity Hackers. 880 00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:59.880 In fact, some of our friends here like Bill Andrew 881 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:04.880 I believe also leaves Parish and some of us also 882 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:09.320 me appear in this documentary. We did the world premiere 883 00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:13.159 in the College of Medical Doctors in Spain where I 884 00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:16.960 recorded my interview and this will be coming there in 885 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:20.840 the next few days in Amazon and Apple. 886 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:24.599 TV, so you will be able to watch this two hours. 887 00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:34.519 Fantastic documentary narrated by OSCAR nominated Edward Norton and produced 888 00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:38.599 by Emmy or World Producers. So it really is had 889 00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:42.519 top top quality is the best documentary so far I 890 00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:46.199 think on longevity and it's called longevity Hackers. 891 00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:47.679 We did something else. 892 00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:51.320 We were going to have the longest living person in 893 00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:55.239 the world with us, who was the Spanish. She was 894 00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:59.920 one hundred

and seventeen years old class one hundred and 895 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.320 sixty eight days young. 896 00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:04.719 I don't say old young oneo. 897 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:09.039 Hundred and seventeen years plus one hundred and sixty eight 898 00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:14.880 days young. Sadly, she died over a month ago, so 899 00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:19.320 we could not have her with us, but we awarded 900 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:24.559 to her the Guinness World Records certificate as the oldest 901 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:29.840 living person in the world until she died. So it 902 00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:33.599 was a day full of incredible activities. And now let's 903 00:55:33.679 --> 00:55:39.239 check these very short clips. So Gnadi begin with any 904 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:42.159 of them. When is the conference, when is the march 905 00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:43.960 and when is the documentary? 906 00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:53.079 To October Dia International. 907 00:55:57.639 --> 00:56:07.039 Told you hello Camida here they were going to learn 908 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.039 that what are okay? 909 00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:14.840 And Setro Magret trust Sero Bama flight Aura has conquer 910 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:16.360 so Potano. 911 00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:27.119 Old It's stop and that means it's stop and he's stop. 912 00:56:27.519 --> 00:56:31.440 Remember and Tom remember the man stop. 913 00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:39.719 Whatever was minster coming in it's not as we make yeah, 914 00:56:41.679 --> 00:57:17.800 because they you know, tempio. 915 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:30.440 Maga stopp. 916 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:47.320 Okay. 917 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.760 As you saw, we were shouting and stop and the 918 00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:57.480 which means stop aging. We had beautiful balloons like this 919 00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:01.079 all of us, and we had T shirts also saying 920 00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:06.800 and themiento and in the bank saying that we are 921 00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:11.719 the last mortal generation and the first in mortal generation. 922 00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:14.199 So we had a lot of impact. 923 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:17.519 That was for the rally, I repeat in the Congress 924 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:21.519 of Spain, in the City Hall of Madrid and in 925 00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:26.599 the state government in Spain. So it was really impactful 926 00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.599 and we gain the declaration of Madrid for longevity, to 927 00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:35.039 the Mayor, to the state Governor and to the deputies 928 00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:36.559 of the Congress of Spain. 929 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:39.920 So let's go with the next video, please two minutes. 930 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:06.000 Or end the mass and nacionalists from com from aware 931 00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:11.800 we are nsulados internationalists called the Gray brig and Johnson 932 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:16.760 and bio fact from Undocum Centennarios.

933 00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:20.000 Alejandro Campo Delsano. 934 00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:25.559 VI suiss sane na ra a little rotemos club with 935 00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:29.920 the nationalist he William f the La Life extensions from 936 00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:36.559 the issue but uego est medico Barada the most pam 937 00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:43.000 from the Cristina Viatrobium, theos from Cismo Medico and bred 938 00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:48.800 Electrica Central Logan, the Remola director and SiO. But you 939 00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:59.320 have lost to one of intes fane jus young per 940 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:01.599 the recorded. 941 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:11.039 In Nationality International Longevity Alliance. 942 01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:21.079 Okay, I hope you see the excitement and the beautiful place, 943 01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:26.639 the most beautiful classical theater of all over Spain, two 944 01:00:26.760 --> 01:00:30.800 centuries old, like the College of Medical Doctors of Spain, 945 01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:33.079 including the president of. 946 01:00:33.159 --> 01:00:35.920 The Royal Academy of Medicine of Spain. 947 01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:39.800 So really fantastic with the top people, which is important 948 01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:42.360 to have credibility, to have recognition. 949 01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:46.440 And we showed the premiere of longevity. 950 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.079 Hackers, so let's work that videos of fantastic video. 951 01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:05.760 A ready m I guess I'm the litmus test for 952 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:07.880 how far you can take it in terms of being 953 01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:09.840 active and being over middle aged. 954 01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:13.039 With a first generation on the planet that understands what 955 01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:13.679 makes us. 956 01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:15.760 Age, you could take an old cell and turn it 957 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:17.960 back into a seemingly young cell. 958 01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:22.119 This future sci fi situation is very close to us. 959 01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:25.719 We have the tools today to extend our healthy lifestream. 960 01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:27.159 We just need to apply it. 961 01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:29.559 I mean here, I am in my sixties feeling better 962 01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:29.880 than ever. 963 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:33.920 The majority of diseases are just due to the underlying 964 01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:34.639 aging process. 965 01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:36.840 It's an incredibly difficult, complex field. 966 01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:41.000 Increasing the healthy lifespan of people around the world is 967 01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:43.159 the greatest benefit we can give to humanity. 968 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.360 I'm actually doing better today was twenty years ago. 969 01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:49.440 Things are going to be exponential. 970 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.039 The more you take into the more you see how 971 01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:53.079 real it actually is. 972 01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:56.599 And hopefully one of these things clicks. If FDY were. 973 01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:58.840 Recognized aging is a disease, it's. 974 01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:01.320 Going to be a mess if inflexing point. 975 01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:01.760 For all of us. 976 01:02:01.960 --> 01:02:04.239 I'm very excited. I think that aging can be cured 977 01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:06.880 a lot faster than most people are projecting. 978 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:10.320 I've slow at my speed of aging by the equivalent 979 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:11.239 of thirty one years. 980 01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:14.440 The prospect of living up to two hundred years is 981 01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:15.960 really nothing. 982 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:19.239 So don't do anything is to diet today so you 983 01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:21.719 get take advantage of the technology that are coming up 984 01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:22.320 in the future. 985 01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:24.760 And what we're saying there is that people's stokes are 986 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:26.400 gone from all folks to puppies again. 987 01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:32.039 Longevity is learning how to take a wait biochemical stress. 988 01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:34.840 What gives you a feeling of peace and what gives 989 01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:38.119 you a feeling of center. To me, aging is just 990 01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:40.599 being who you are, regardless of what the number is. 991 01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:44.599 A good diet and exercise will help you avoid long disease. 992 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:46.079 But it's truly not enough. 993 01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:50.119 Aging is a disease that we must treat like the disease. 994 01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:51.920 And there's many things that we can do now to 995 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:52.440 slow them. 996 01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:53.159 Firstus death. 997 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:57.719 Then you not only live longer, but you live stronger. 998 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:02.119 I wouldn't be surprised if we saw reversal agion and 999 01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:02.719 every day. 1000 01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:05.079 I want to really fast guy. 1001 01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:08.280 Ever as wild we can imagine it. 1002 01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:17.840 This ship works well. 1003 01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:19.440 I hope you get excited. 1004 01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:25.199 This is the best documentary produce up to now on immortality. 1005 01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:28.400 They talk about immortality at the very beginning, so the 1006 01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:31.920 longevity hackers so that we can become immortal. And I 1007 01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:34.639 just want to tell you how happy we are, how 1008 01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:38.719 excited we are. We are proposing Madrid to be the 1009 01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:43.280 first Blue sone of Spain because Madrid is the capital 1010 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:47.920 of Europe with the longest life expectancy, and also Spain 1011

01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.920 is the European country with the longest life expectancy among 1012 01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:57.400 big countries and only second in the world after Japan. 1013 01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:01.440 Japan has the longest life effect in the world, and 1014 01:04:01.559 --> 01:04:05.519 then Spain is second among large countries over ten million 1015 01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:07.519 people and Madrid. 1016 01:04:07.639 --> 01:04:09.239 Again, Madrid beats. 1017 01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:15.679 Sardinia or Okinagua or Loma Linda in lefe expectancy. So 1018 01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:19.000 to us, it's kind of funny that these places that 1019 01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:23.599 are called blue zones have a long lower lower life 1020 01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:28.199 expectancy than Madrid. You know, the life expectancy in Madrid 1021 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:32.800 is eighty five point four years. Eighty five point four 1022 01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:37.760 That is more than Lomalin, than California, more than the 1023 01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:43.599 Nicosia Peninsula and Costa Rica, more than Nicaria in Greece, 1024 01:04:44.039 --> 01:04:49.559 more than Sardinia in Italy, and more than Okinagua in Japan. 1025 01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:53.440 So if those are blue zones, then Madrid should be 1026 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:54.760 a super blue zone. 1027 01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:03.280 Yes, thank you very much. Really appreciate all of these 1028 01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:09.800 activities that are happening in Madrid, the March, the Transvision conference, 1029 01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:16.320 and yes, this Blue Zone declaration. It is remarkable that 1030 01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:21.239 a city like Madrid could have an average life expectancy 1031 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:25.880 which is I think at least eight years greater than 1032 01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:29.360 the average life expectancy in the United States. And I'm 1033 01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:32.679 not surprised actually that a city would have higher life 1034 01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:38.079 expectancy than more rural places because in a city, one 1035 01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:41.079 can get to a hospital faster, one could get critical 1036 01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:47.599 medical care more promptly. But there's also something about the 1037 01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:54.400 lifestyle there that is worthy of further exploration, certainly, and 1038 01:05:55.360 --> 01:06:00.559 Bill Andrews pointed out that everyone should also be aware 1039 01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:04.840 that a march of this sort is in the process 1040 01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:09.559 of being organized in the United States. The Coalition for 1041 01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:14.119 Radical Life Extension will be organizing such a march to 1042 01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:19.320 support life and health extension at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. 1043 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:23.599 It could happen either next year twenty twenty six, depending 1044 01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:26.440 on how long it takes to get it organized. The 1045 01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:29.480 first time I heard an announcement of the sort was 1046 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:34.679 at Radfest this year in September, and I think it 1047 01:06:35.119 --> 01:06:39.760 is a remarkably promising idea. It is an idea that 1048 01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:47.199 all longevity, transhumanist and adjacent organizations in the US should 1049 01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:52.199 participate in. And if you are an international transhumanist, come 1050 01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:56.039 visit the United States for that occasion, because we need 1051 01:06:56.119 --> 01:07:00.639 to show up in large numbers to give politics and 1052 01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:05.639 the median understanding that this is a cause that actually 1053 01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:10.079 has considerable support from the population. Deal. Would you like 1054 01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:12.320 to say anything else about that, yes. 1055 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:13.519 Just quickly. 1056 01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:17.039 I fully support them, and I think it's a great idea, 1057 01:07:17.480 --> 01:07:20.840 but you should try to cover different things. You should 1058 01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:24.239 go to the US Capitol, you should go to the 1059 01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:28.800 White House, you should go to the Washington Monument, because 1060 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:32.880 they are all very very close. Like our march lasted 1061 01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:37.119 two hours and in two hours we went to the Congress, 1062 01:07:37.679 --> 01:07:39.960 we went to the city Hall, and we went to 1063 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:44.119 the state government because they are within walking distance. And 1064 01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:48.960 actually we got two police vehicles to protect us and 1065 01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:52.880 tend police officers with us through the march, so it 1066 01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:56.320 was all very legal, and we had the support of 1067 01:07:56.440 --> 01:08:01.760 the local authorities and we covered again tive an executive power, 1068 01:08:02.079 --> 01:08:04.960 and you should do the same in Washington as much 1069 01:08:05.239 --> 01:08:06.760 power centers as you can. 1070 01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:12.639 Yes, I do want to say, oh, I do want 1071 01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:16.399 to add some stuff. Both Liz Parish and I along 1072 01:08:16.439 --> 01:08:19.720 with Bill Falloon, are board members for the Coalition for 1073 01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:24.039 Radical Life Extension, and we are there's a lot of 1074 01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:26.560 effort right now to make this into something really good 1075 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:31.159 and we want to have a lot of speakers come 1076 01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:34.800 along and Jose's at the top of that list. So Jose, 1077 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:36.880 I hope you can you can be part of that 1078 01:08:37.039 --> 01:08:40.000 and any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. 1079

01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:40.720 Uh. 1080 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:44.880 And uh, I just I think everybody on this looking 1081 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:48.279 over this list, everybody here on this speaker, on this 1082 01:08:48.399 --> 01:08:50.920 call today, should be a speaker at this event. 1083 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:51.720 Uh. 1084 01:08:52.359 --> 01:08:54.960 I think it's going to actually become quite a major 1085 01:08:56.239 --> 01:09:00.039 event with all the work that I've already seen and 1086 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.960 put into it. So let's hope it makes a really 1087 01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:06.720 big difference because a lot of us know. 1088 01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:09.560 Too many people. 1089 01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:14.039 Are not aware of how important this stuff is going 1090 01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:16.560 and they're not aware that's actually going on. So hopefully 1091 01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:19.520 this will make a difference. And just like Jose's events. 1092 01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:24.159 Yes, absolutely, I think it will make a difference. If 1093 01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:29.840 many individuals and organizations gather in Washington, d C. For 1094 01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:34.000 this march, it will be an unprecedented kind of visibility 1095 01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:39.920 for our movement. Consider that Sultan's public relations action that 1096 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:44.439 garnered the most views was the conclusion of the Immortality 1097 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:48.720 Bus tour when he went to the US Capitol building 1098 01:09:49.199 --> 01:09:54.600 and he tried to essentially temporarily attach the first draft 1099 01:09:54.880 --> 01:09:57.880 of the Transhumanist Bill of Rights to the walls of 1100 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:02.439 the Capitol. Now, this was not an action that was 1101 01:10:02.520 --> 01:10:06.880 officially allowed, so he had police officers essentially watching his 1102 01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:11.039 every move and they were telling him, essentially, don't do 1103 01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:16.479 this thing. But there were also journalists present, and Zolten 1104 01:10:16.920 --> 01:10:20.600 had the confidence that the police wouldn't react with excessive 1105 01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:24.920 force when they were being filmed by all of these 1106 01:10:25.479 --> 01:10:29.319 media representatives. So he did put the Transhumanist Bill of 1107 01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:33.760 Rights against the wall on the steps of the Capitol building, 1108 01:10:33.920 --> 01:10:38.680 just very briefly, and then the wind prevented it from sticking. 1109 01:10:39.119 --> 01:10:44.079 But that was enough of a pr moment that it 1110 01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:47.880 really took the transhumanist movement to the next level. So 1111 01:10:48.039 --> 01:10:52.680 imagine if we have thousands of people there marching, holding 1112 01:10:52.840 --> 01:10:59.880 up posters and giving speeches and interacting with other members 1113 01:10:59.880 --> 01:11:03.960 of the public. This would be literally several orders of 1114 01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:08.800 magnitude greater of a phenomenon than what Zultan did back 1115 01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:12.800 in twenty fifteen, and it would show how much of 1116 01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:18.640 growth has occurred in our movement and in the ideas 1117 01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:23.000 of transhumanism and the pursuit of radical life extension. So 1118 01:11:23.199 --> 01:11:27.520 Liz has shared a video from the Coalition for Radical 1119 01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:31.960 Life Extension which is a bit over thirteen minutes long, 1120 01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:36.159 but it explains the rally for longevity rights and the 1121 01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:40.640 plans thus far. I would encourage everyone to go to 1122 01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:44.439 this link and watch it right after our salon today, 1123 01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:48.159 So thank you very much Liz for sharing that. And 1124 01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:55.800 we also have some remarkably supportive viewers. So the Reneural 1125 01:11:56.239 --> 01:12:01.840 Project has a super chat and they they encourage us 1126 01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:07.159 to prioritize ending disability, which we do. By the way. Unfortunately, 1127 01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:11.960 this individual has cerebral palsy and they came to transhumanism 1128 01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:15.720 because they were disappointed. And the disability pride movements, Investment 1129 01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:20.840 and disability identity end disability by twenty fifty. I would 1130 01:12:20.840 --> 01:12:26.279 say sooner if we can, because truly, disability is what 1131 01:12:26.439 --> 01:12:31.319 deprives people of ability. If we most of us have 1132 01:12:31.479 --> 01:12:35.760 the ability of sight or hearing or motion, and some 1133 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:40.000 people don't, that should not be an aspect of pride. 1134 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:42.600 For those people. That's a limitation. And some of them, 1135 01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:47.039 through heroic effort, overcome those limitations and are able to 1136 01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:54.119 lead high quality of life nonetheless, but still if they 1137 01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:57.319 didn't have those limitations, their quality of life would be 1138 01:12:57.720 --> 01:13:01.079 much improved. So I completely agree for all of those 1139 01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:05.319 people who are disabled. The US Transhumanist Party explicitly supports 1140 01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:12.600 ending disabilities through advancements in technology. Be they artificial prosthetics 1141 01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:18.520 or regeneration of organs that have been damaged. And I 1142 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:22.000 really appreciate this sentiment. And also our friend John h 1143 01:13:22.520 --> 01:13:25.439 has contributed a dollar for every year of the party's existence. 1144 01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:29.479 This should encourage us to be celebrating our

million anniversary someday. 1145 01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:32.720 Thank you very much, John, and I think with all 1146 01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:36.079 of our efforts we can get there. For transhumanists, a 1147 01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:41.720 millionth anniversary is not outside the realm of possibility, so 1148 01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:47.920 thank you very much. And also Dan Elton pointed out 1149 01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:52.439 on the subject of whole brain emulation that the mapping 1150 01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:56.199 of the fruit fly brain has been completed by the 1151 01:13:56.800 --> 01:14:01.239 Flywire group at Princeton, So thank you for the news there. 1152 01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:01.560 Dan. 1153 01:14:01.880 --> 01:14:05.920 These fields of technology are progressing. We don't always see 1154 01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:11.239 them in our everyday experience, but major scientific advancements are 1155 01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:14.399 being made as we speak. And it is the job 1156 01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:18.319 of the Transhumanist Party and the transhumanist movement in general 1157 01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:22.079 to bring awareness of these advances to the general public 1158 01:14:22.399 --> 01:14:25.159 and to give people a source of hope, a source 1159 01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:29.720 of meaning and purpose in their lives. So thank you 1160 01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:34.319 very much Dan for the news there. Does anybody on 1161 01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:38.279 our panel want to make any further remarks about what 1162 01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:40.560 we have discussed thus far. 1163 01:14:43.279 --> 01:14:46.039 Let's see, all right, art Ramond, I want to say 1164 01:14:46.119 --> 01:14:48.840 this is the best meeting Enlightenment Salon has ever had. 1165 01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:52.720 I think this should be circulated as much as possible. 1166 01:14:53.399 --> 01:14:56.960 And I was just wondering if Liz Parrish's video that 1167 01:14:57.039 --> 01:15:01.760 she posted was actually posted to everyone just the group 1168 01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:02.520 that's on this call. 1169 01:15:03.520 --> 01:15:07.359 It was posted to everyone, Yes, because we shared the 1170 01:15:07.439 --> 01:15:13.039 link through all of the platforms where this is being streamed. 1171 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:19.720 And again, please go watch this video here on vimeo 1172 01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:24.920 dot com after our salon concludes today. And Art Ramones, 1173 01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:28.880 since we have you here and you are our director 1174 01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:33.119 of Visual Arts, you have been our vice chairman two 1175 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:37.640 times per our rotation, please offer your thoughts about the 1176 01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:41.960 Transhumanist Party, its past, presence and future and anything else 1177 01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.640 you want to say about the topics that have been discussed. 1178 01:15:46.079 --> 01:15:46.279 Yeah. 1179 01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:49.600 I

mean when I first learned about Trashigdism, it was 1180 01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:54.600 through Celtan. He was on a show twenty fourteen I 1181 01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:58.439 believe called Redi's Radium, So that's when I first learned 1182 01:15:58.439 --> 01:16:01.399 about him. And at the time when I was forty 1183 01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:07.640 two and was pretty fit at the time, doing a 1184 01:16:07.680 --> 01:16:13.119 lot of kickboxing and jiu jitsu. Several times throughout my life, 1185 01:16:13.199 --> 01:16:16.720 I've kind of let myself go or suffered some energy 1186 01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:21.319 injury that required a lot of rehab, and so in 1187 01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:22.119 time I was. 1188 01:16:22.239 --> 01:16:25.359 Very interested in what Zoten had to say. 1189 01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:30.920 Kind of the embody what I've always believed, except it 1190 01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:36.039 was more in sci fi terms like cyborg or let's say, 1191 01:16:36.199 --> 01:16:39.760 sight of Punk, but transhument sort of embody what I've 1192 01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:45.840 always believed about myself and how I would go forward 1193 01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:49.640 as I age. But I originally saw an article how 1194 01:16:50.239 --> 01:16:53.720 there are two points in life where you have severe aging, 1195 01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:56.399 and one of them is forty four and the other 1196 01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:57.199 one sixty. 1197 01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:01.239 So in my early forty I was still fit. 1198 01:17:01.359 --> 01:17:04.920 But now that I look back, yes, as I got 1199 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:08.119 closer to forty four, that's when I thought a lot 1200 01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:11.479 of joint issues and I could not continue doing jiu 1201 01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:13.399 jitsu and kickboxing. 1202 01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:14.840 It was just too hard on my joints. 1203 01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:18.159 And as I sort of got past that forty four, 1204 01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:22.960 that's when I switched over to hiking and hiking hiking 1205 01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:25.479 the severe heat seemed to have a bit of a 1206 01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:29.600 therapeutic defect and helped me sort of recover from all 1207 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:30.760 the joint injuries. 1208 01:17:31.479 --> 01:17:37.640 So that's what I did, and that kind of sustained 1209 01:17:37.680 --> 01:17:43.279 me until kind of late forties, and then I hit 1210 01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:49.560 another bit of a aging period there and that combined 1211 01:17:49.600 --> 01:17:53.640 with COVID kind of hurt me. Now I don't even 1212 01:17:54.840 --> 01:17:58.479 do the hiking I used to. I do very pathetic 1213 01:17:58.560 --> 01:17:59.880 hiking compared to what I used to do. 1214 01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:01.680 But yeah, I mean. 1215 01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:07.039 Transhumanism and anti aging efforts definitely, that's what I want. 1216 01:18:07.159 --> 01:18:09.720 That's that's what I'm hoping for. And

one of the 1217 01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:13.479 reasons I got involved with the party in twenty was 1218 01:18:13.520 --> 01:18:16.159 because of the lockdowns. I was like, you know, I 1219 01:18:16.279 --> 01:18:18.039 can't go out and do the other things I used 1220 01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:20.319 to do, so I'd have more time. So that's one 1221 01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:23.600 of the reasons I said to apply for the visual 1222 01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:28.119 art position and get more involved with the party. And 1223 01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:32.000 you know, we had the lockdown, so we would do 1224 01:18:32.039 --> 01:18:35.680 the salons and I would participate. It was my way 1225 01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:41.239 of sort of learning passively about a variety of transhumanist technology, 1226 01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:45.079 so that ways I wouldn't have to, you know, actively 1227 01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:47.199 go out and search for it. It would just kind 1228 01:18:47.199 --> 01:18:49.600 of come to me being here at the center of things. 1229 01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:53.840 So that's always been beneficial and you know going forward. 1230 01:18:54.039 --> 01:18:58.960 That's this knowledge is beneficient for me because I need 1231 01:18:59.039 --> 01:19:02.000 to plan out how how I do things as I 1232 01:19:02.159 --> 01:19:04.760 get towards sixty. I mean, if I'm going to hit 1233 01:19:05.439 --> 01:19:07.760 a better peak at sixty, I need to sort of 1234 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:13.640 plan out how I you know, treat myself and TRTS 1235 01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:16.800 one of the things I haven't done yet, and I've 1236 01:19:16.840 --> 01:19:19.159 heard a lot of people say it's really great, you 1237 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:21.359 know it It helps you, helps you with a brain ball, 1238 01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:23.760 it helps you with the chronic fatigue, you know, which 1239 01:19:23.840 --> 01:19:25.720 is one of the things I'm dealing with with COVID 1240 01:19:25.800 --> 01:19:28.479 long haul. But I kind of want to hold off 1241 01:19:28.560 --> 01:19:32.279 on that until I get closer to sixty because I'm 1242 01:19:32.279 --> 01:19:36.000 thinking fifty eight would be a good time to start 1243 01:19:36.159 --> 01:19:40.000 on TRT and build myself up before I hit that. 1244 01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:44.560 That that's sixty where you're sort of expected to do 1245 01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:50.159 a lot of aging. So yeah, transceive it as of 1246 01:19:50.239 --> 01:19:52.800 the movement. I'm hoping it grows up. Doing my part, 1247 01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:57.199 you know, to to tell others about it. You know, 1248 01:19:57.439 --> 01:20:00.840 I'm a chairman of the Arizona that's in this party, 1249 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:05.199 and I'd say, you know, it is difficult sometimes to speak. 1250 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:09.319 With people on this, so you know, that is a 1251 01:20:09.399 --> 01:20:10.199 bit of a challenge. 1252 01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:10.439 You know. 1253

01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:13.760 Some people aren't interested in anti aging, but you know, 1254 01:20:15.039 --> 01:20:18.119 from my experience, you know, it hits your heart, you 1255 01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:23.479 know it it limits you, you know, physically, and everyone 1256 01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:26.600 should be interested in it. You know, the agent I've 1257 01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:30.000 experienced in the past ten years, it is significant. So 1258 01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:34.279 I have to plan out my surgeries, you know. And 1259 01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:37.199 my joints are bad. You know, my knee joints are 1260 01:20:37.239 --> 01:20:39.159 pretty much gone. Hip joints are. 1261 01:20:39.159 --> 01:20:43.079 Gone, but base of my neck is gone, base of 1262 01:20:43.159 --> 01:20:44.199 my spine is gone. 1263 01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:47.199 I have to figure out what surgeries I want to 1264 01:20:47.319 --> 01:20:51.720 do to keep myself going, to keep myself fit. And 1265 01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:56.000 you know, before I retired, you know, so when I 1266 01:20:56.079 --> 01:20:58.560 have the money to actually do these surgeries, I've already 1267 01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:02.720 gone one surgery with my nose deviated symptom, and I figured, 1268 01:21:02.840 --> 01:21:05.560 you know, stint sales aren't going to help with a 1269 01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:08.520 deviated scept that I have to do surgical correction. 1270 01:21:09.079 --> 01:21:11.640 That I did that, and I break a lot better now. 1271 01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:16.359 So definitely I'm here to support the party any way 1272 01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:19.520 I can, uh, And definitely I'm here to. 1273 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:22.920 Learn as much as I can and and maintain my. 1274 01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:28.079 Physical form going forward, because that's that's my priority is 1275 01:21:28.399 --> 01:21:32.039 to keep living in and keep making art, and uh, 1276 01:21:32.399 --> 01:21:35.600 you know, hopefully when that retirement age comes one day 1277 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:38.720 and I can hopefully retire and just focus on our 1278 01:21:39.079 --> 01:21:42.239 one hundred percent, you know, and then I'll have time. 1279 01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:43.000 To make more. 1280 01:21:43.159 --> 01:21:47.600 Transhumanis steam dart, which is sometimes I get criticized not 1281 01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:51.159 making enough you know, transhuman to steamed dart. But right 1282 01:21:51.199 --> 01:21:54.159 now I'm kind of mad art, which, uh, which reflects 1283 01:21:54.239 --> 01:21:57.479 my thoughts and and my current circumstances. 1284 01:21:57.880 --> 01:21:59.960 So yeah, you haven't been hopeful. 1285 01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:06.039 Yes, I love the book that you have on the 1286 01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:10.760 top right in your background in your home, which is 1287 01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:15.319 the Death of Death, which is now in fifteen languages, 1288 01:22:15.479 --> 01:22:18.880 a global betseller, and

I saw the book, so thank 1289 01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:21.800 you so much. And yes, we need art, We need 1290 01:22:22.079 --> 01:22:25.520 art and people working on this because this is how 1291 01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:27.000 people get excited. 1292 01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:29.279 We need to get people excited. 1293 01:22:29.680 --> 01:22:34.279 Science is fantastic, technology is fantastic, but many people don't 1294 01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:38.159 get excited by science and technology, but they get excited 1295 01:22:38.239 --> 01:22:44.399 by art, by painting, by culture, by novels, by movies 1296 01:22:44.680 --> 01:22:49.560 like the documentary that talks about immortality longevity Hacker. So yes, 1297 01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:55.199 congratulations and thank you for having my betseller in your background. 1298 01:22:56.720 --> 01:23:00.680 Yes, you're welcome, and I did, but in spirit, so 1299 01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:05.760 it helped me work out my mind and my mental plasticity. 1300 01:23:06.680 --> 01:23:09.960 Reading it in Spanish definitely a lot of words that 1301 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:14.680 I didn't recognize, and now I can read through it, 1302 01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:18.199 and even though I don't remember the exact definition of 1303 01:23:18.279 --> 01:23:21.800 ever work, I could still grab some meaningful context and 1304 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.399 yeah it's but back in twenty twenty two, I did 1305 01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:31.600 feel very well after doing some code therapy and I 1306 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:34.319 almost felt like I was cured from COVID. 1307 01:23:34.079 --> 01:23:39.600 Long haul brain fog. It came back. Where was I 1308 01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:41.960 for surgeries? 1309 01:23:43.119 --> 01:23:46.840 So yeah, planning out my surgeries, I mean, I got 1310 01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:48.359 to keep the body operational. 1311 01:23:48.640 --> 01:23:51.199 I'm trying to hold out a certain surgeries like spine. 1312 01:23:51.439 --> 01:23:53.319 Definitely don't want to mess around on the spine cook. 1313 01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:56.720 I absolutely have to joint surgery. 1314 01:23:57.359 --> 01:23:59.800 You know, maybe the better ones got to hold out 1315 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:05.479 another decade or so or five years at least so 1316 01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:06.920 that technology improves. 1317 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:10.000 But definitely. 1318 01:24:11.640 --> 01:24:16.000 Art, I'm trying to make smaller art so that I 1319 01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:20.039 can make it quicker and possibly experiment with some more 1320 01:24:20.399 --> 01:24:24.520 transhumanist themed art versus the current art theme that I 1321 01:24:25.039 --> 01:24:28.239 normally work on. Definitely honored to be part of the 1322 01:24:28.319 --> 01:24:31.800 group and always to help any way I can. 1323 01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:36.199 Yes, thank you art Ramonin. We look forward to seeing 1324 01:24:36.359 --> 01:24:41.439 more transhumanist themed art from you. And you had some 1325 01:24:42.039 --> 01:24:48.800 insightful remarks on our earlier salon during the summer about 1326 01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:57.520 essentially harnessing our humanity and the human capabilities of transhumanists, 1327 01:24:57.560 --> 01:25:02.680 and you mentioned that your methods of artistic creation essentially 1328 01:25:02.760 --> 01:25:06.479 are such that they cannot be rendered obsolete by advances 1329 01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:09.600 in AI, though you are also quite a skilled user 1330 01:25:09.960 --> 01:25:14.800 of AI yourself, and having these various media of art 1331 01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:19.439 to convey the transhumanist message is I think crucial. Also, 1332 01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:23.520 I think you have illustrated the predicament that Zoltan mentioned 1333 01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:27.239 in his remarks, which is, while it's great that ten 1334 01:25:27.359 --> 01:25:30.560 years have past, we are all ten years older, so 1335 01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:35.279 we have all experienced aging to some extent. Possibly the 1336 01:25:35.399 --> 01:25:39.039 only person who hasn't on this panel is Liz Parrish. 1337 01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:41.680 But I know that. 1338 01:25:43.239 --> 01:25:47.840 When Zoltan founded the Transhumanist Party, I was twenty seven. 1339 01:25:48.399 --> 01:25:53.960 Now I'm thirty seven, and I think it's interesting because 1340 01:25:55.039 --> 01:25:58.279 thirty seven does feel different. I have been doing a 1341 01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:01.960 lot of running in Betwe between then and now, and 1342 01:26:02.119 --> 01:26:05.520 I think to some extent it has served to stave 1343 01:26:05.680 --> 01:26:11.319 off certain decline that would have been occurring. But nonetheless, 1344 01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:14.880 I see it as a kind of funnel that narrows 1345 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:19.920 with age, and as long as biological aging continues, one 1346 01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:24.319 can do certain things through lifestyle like exercise, to put 1347 01:26:24.399 --> 01:26:30.000 oneself on one side of the funnel, let's say, a 1348 01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:33.159 healthier side of the funnel, or a higher performing one. 1349 01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:36.000 So sometimes when I run races, I can still be 1350 01:26:36.119 --> 01:26:38.840 faster than certain twenty year olds, but the twenty year 1351 01:26:38.840 --> 01:26:41.840 olds have a built in advantage of I would estimate 1352 01:26:41.880 --> 01:26:45.239 about a minute per mile, and I have to work 1353 01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:49.760 and train a lot harder to get to a certain 1354 01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:53.199 running speed than a twenty year old would right out 1355 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:57.840 of the gate. Perhaps with some learned discipline, I am 1356 01:26:57.920 --> 01:27:00.960 able to have better results, whereas the twenty year olds 1357 01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:04.239 just haven't gotten there yet for the most part. But 1358

01:27:04.479 --> 01:27:06.640 if they did, if they had the same kind of 1359 01:27:06.720 --> 01:27:10.560 discipline and the same kind of training regimen that I have, 1360 01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:13.720 they would be about a minute per mile faster, I 1361 01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:17.760 would estimate. And I haven't reached forty four yet, so 1362 01:27:18.600 --> 01:27:20.399 I don't know what will happen to me then, but 1363 01:27:20.520 --> 01:27:25.119 I am hoping for some advances, at the very least 1364 01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:29.279 by my fifties that might spare me from the worst 1365 01:27:29.319 --> 01:27:32.760 of it. But we need to accelerate scientific and technological 1366 01:27:32.840 --> 01:27:36.720 progress to have that happen. And we have also been 1367 01:27:36.840 --> 01:27:41.239 joined by doctor Dan Elton, our director of Scholarship. So Dan, 1368 01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:43.680 thank you for your comments in the chat thus far, 1369 01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:47.079 and I would invite you to share your remarks on 1370 01:27:47.199 --> 01:27:53.439 the occasion of the US Transhumanist Party's tenth anniversary. Yeah. Thanks, Jannati. 1371 01:27:54.600 --> 01:27:55.239 Everyone hear me. 1372 01:27:55.319 --> 01:27:59.640 Okay, Well, I figured i'd stop on for just a 1373 01:27:59.680 --> 01:28:04.720 little bit to share a few things. Kind of tired today, 1374 01:28:04.880 --> 01:28:10.840 but I'm glad to be here. Well, I'll tell you 1375 01:28:11.239 --> 01:28:15.520 my history with the party. I was in grad school 1376 01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:23.359 out at on Long Island at Stonybrook University in between 1377 01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:28.239 twenty ten to twenty sixteen, and there weren't really many 1378 01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:33.439 transhumanists out there, but somehow I fell into the movement. 1379 01:28:34.479 --> 01:28:42.640 I think reading Ray Kurzweil's book Singularity Is Near in 1380 01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:45.680 twenty twelve really is what catalyzed my interest. 1381 01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:48.760 And so when the. 1382 01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:53.239 Sultan launched a party in twenty fifteen, I've actually found 1383 01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:56.840 out about pretty early on, and I'm very proud to 1384 01:28:56.920 --> 01:29:00.640 say I was one of the early donate funders or 1385 01:29:01.479 --> 01:29:08.079 contributors to his campaign on Indiegogo, and. 1386 01:29:10.720 --> 01:29:13.000 And uh, and then. 1387 01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:16.439 You know, I kind of just stayed in touch with 1388 01:29:16.520 --> 01:29:20.800 the party over the years. When I moved down to Washington, 1389 01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:25.359 D C. Area in twenty seventeen, I helped revitalize the 1390 01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:29.760 DC Transhumanist Party and we held a number of events 1391 01:29:32.720 --> 01:29:33.680 before the pandemic. 1392 01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:41.880 But my, my whole. 1393 01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:49.119 Philosophy or or thinking here

is that this party is 1394 01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:55.479 really a vehicle for outreach and of course and and 1395 01:29:55.720 --> 01:30:04.720 and proposing interesting policies other people aren't proposing. Robin Hanson, 1396 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:11.079 who's a well known transhumanist, chronicist, et cetera. He has 1397 01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:16.640 a great article where he explains that with the in politics, 1398 01:30:16.800 --> 01:30:18.279 you can think of it like a tug of war. 1399 01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:24.720 You have the Republicans Democrats, and there's big issues that 1400 01:30:24.800 --> 01:30:28.199 they're always fighting about, right, and so you can think 1401 01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.840 of it like a tug of war. They're pulling, but 1402 01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:34.600 there's tons of people pulling back and forth on each side. Well, 1403 01:30:34.640 --> 01:30:36.960 what Robin Hanson's said says is if you can come 1404 01:30:37.039 --> 01:30:40.159 in from the side and pull from the side, you 1405 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:41.880 can have a big impact so if you're coming in 1406 01:30:41.960 --> 01:30:45.439 from a different direction with totally new policy ideas that 1407 01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:49.720 nobody else is talking about, that can have an outsized impact. 1408 01:30:50.479 --> 01:30:53.119 And so I think that's you know, I think the 1409 01:30:53.199 --> 01:30:57.600 Transhumers Party has has is a vehicle for getting interesting 1410 01:30:57.680 --> 01:31:01.920 policy ideas into the into mainstream. I think Transfumist Party 1411 01:31:02.039 --> 01:31:05.840 was one of the first groups to talk about existential risk, 1412 01:31:06.960 --> 01:31:09.359 so I give the party a lot of credit for that. 1413 01:31:09.600 --> 01:31:10.039 And then. 1414 01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:17.720 FDA reform right has been a big focus and I 1415 01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:22.239 hope to continue, you know, writing and talking about FDA reform. 1416 01:31:24.399 --> 01:31:26.760 So anyway, those are just a few random thoughts. The 1417 01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:28.640 other thing I wanted to share with everyone on the 1418 01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:32.279 call is I just moved back down to the DC area. 1419 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:36.600 The reason I moved down here was for a new 1420 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:43.720 job at the NIH, so that's it's actually where I 1421 01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:46.319 used to work. I was at NIH between twenty nineteen 1422 01:31:46.399 --> 01:31:49.880 and twenty twenty one, but then I moved up to 1423 01:31:50.479 --> 01:31:52.439 Boston for a different job. 1424 01:31:54.159 --> 01:31:55.960 But now I'm returning to NIH. 1425 01:31:57.720 --> 01:31:59.840 And I'll be starting a new job there as a 1426 01:32:00.000 --> 01:32:03.279 as a staff scientist, and I'm really excited about it 1427 01:32:03.399 --> 01:32:06.199 because I'm going to have a bit more independence in 1428 01:32:06.279 --> 01:32:09.840 this position

to really plan out my own research agenda. 1429 01:32:10.479 --> 01:32:18.439 So I'm hoping to focus on basically leveraging different types 1430 01:32:18.439 --> 01:32:26.880 of data like EHRs, imaging and genetics for personalized medicine 1431 01:32:26.960 --> 01:32:31.399 and preventative healthcare. So I'm hoping to tie my work 1432 01:32:31.479 --> 01:32:37.399 into the broader longevity movement with a focus on again 1433 01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:44.239 preventive healthcare and risk prediction. And I'll be going to 1434 01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:48.840 the Biomarkers of Aging conference in Boston at the end 1435 01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:54.239 of October. The Foresight Institute's going to be organizing a 1436 01:32:54.319 --> 01:32:59.319 Halloween party on October thirty first in Boston, so I'm 1437 01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:02.920 really looking for to that and then going to the Biomarkers. 1438 01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:03.600 Of Aging event. 1439 01:33:03.920 --> 01:33:05.560 Maybe I'll see some people there, I don't know. 1440 01:33:08.079 --> 01:33:11.399 So yeah, those are just some comments and I wanted 1441 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:11.720 to share. 1442 01:33:13.319 --> 01:33:17.039 Yes, thank you very much Dan for stopping by and 1443 01:33:17.159 --> 01:33:21.760 sharing those remarks, and congratulations on your return to the 1444 01:33:22.159 --> 01:33:25.560 ni H. I think you have the potential to do 1445 01:33:25.680 --> 01:33:28.880 a lot of good there. I will think that. 1446 01:33:29.319 --> 01:33:29.520 Yeah. 1447 01:33:29.560 --> 01:33:33.159 One other thing I wanted to mention is that I 1448 01:33:33.239 --> 01:33:37.079 think these online events and online community is actually very 1449 01:33:37.119 --> 01:33:45.199 important because there's geographically speaking, the transhumanists and like minded 1450 01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:50.880 individuals who are thinking about these these radical technologies tend 1451 01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:55.199 to be concentrated in in particular locations, right, so it 1452 01:33:55.319 --> 01:33:59.720 tends to be the San Francisco Bay Area, which which 1453 01:33:59.800 --> 01:34:02.680 really is which is where all where all these people 1454 01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:06.560 are concentrated. And then to a little bit lesser extent 1455 01:34:06.920 --> 01:34:12.399 some city some some some cities like Boston maybe, uh 1456 01:34:12.640 --> 01:34:17.039 maybe London. And then of course Jose has his his 1457 01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:22.119 his groups in Madrid. But you know, in you know 1458 01:34:22.159 --> 01:34:24.279 where I am here in d C. There's there's not 1459 01:34:24.600 --> 01:34:28.359 that many. So it's really nice to be able to 1460 01:34:28.439 --> 01:34:31.079 connect with you guys online through these sort of events 1461 01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:36.159 and may keep plugged into the broader community even when 1462 01:34:36.199 --> 01:34:41.239 you're there's not necessarily a lot of people like minded 1463 01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:48.159 people around, right. I am hoping to work with with 1464 01:34:48.560 --> 01:34:55.319 Dylan Livingston at the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives, and also 1465 01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:59.119 Ed Hudgens lives right near here but where I live now, 1466 01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:01.640 but other and that there's not that many. 1467 01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:03.119 So it's it's it's. 1468 01:35:04.560 --> 01:35:08.039 Really just a great, a great service that you've done 1469 01:35:08.079 --> 01:35:11.079 here with these enlightenment s lines. Don't we don't necessarily 1470 01:35:11.119 --> 01:35:13.800 get a lot of people, but I think it's great 1471 01:35:13.920 --> 01:35:16.039 for the people who do attend. 1472 01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:21.600 Yes, thank you very much, Dan, And of course you 1473 01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:25.479 have done several salons for us where you have recapped 1474 01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:31.800 your impressions in great detail regarding the conferences that you attended, 1475 01:35:31.880 --> 01:35:35.239 and that's a great way to broaden the impacts of 1476 01:35:35.399 --> 01:35:40.960 those conferences to a much wider audience, including people who 1477 01:35:41.000 --> 01:35:45.720 are geographically dispersed or unable to travel for whatever reasons. 1478 01:35:45.840 --> 01:35:48.760 So I do hope you might be able to make 1479 01:35:48.800 --> 01:35:53.000 a similar presentation on the Biomarkers of Aging conference, and 1480 01:35:53.199 --> 01:35:56.560 if you can provide some glimpses into that Halloween party, 1481 01:35:56.640 --> 01:35:59.800 that might be interesting as well. Daniel Tweet mentioned that 1482 01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:04.800 the International Longevity Month coincides with the month of Halloween, 1483 01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:09.640 and that might also give rise to some creative marketing opportunities. Charlie, 1484 01:36:09.680 --> 01:36:13.720 you may recall we tried to get an undead constituency 1485 01:36:13.800 --> 01:36:17.680 to support you in twenty twenty. Of course, their greatest 1486 01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:21.279 effect would have been actually showing up at the polls 1487 01:36:21.359 --> 01:36:24.520 and trying to vote, but because of mail in ballots 1488 01:36:25.039 --> 01:36:28.960 that didn't really happen, so I don't think they made 1489 01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:31.399 very much of a difference as a result. But nonetheless, 1490 01:36:32.199 --> 01:36:36.960 it was an interesting idea at the time to mention 1491 01:36:37.079 --> 01:36:43.000 the undead constituency in the context of transhumanism, but Halloween 1492 01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:46.319 in general, the color scheme is similar. So note the 1493 01:36:46.479 --> 01:36:52.720 tie that I'm wearing. It's a transhumanist tie, but orange, black, gold, 1494 01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:57.600 all of those are common Halloween colors as well, so 1495 01:36:58.479 --> 01:37:05.000 there could be

some interesting esthetic types of approaches during 1496 01:37:05.079 --> 01:37:08.840 this month. Also, I will point out we had a 1497 01:37:08.920 --> 01:37:13.640 great virtual Enlightenment salon with Robin Hanson, whom you mentioned, 1498 01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:16.880 so please check it out. This was recent on August 1499 01:37:16.960 --> 01:37:20.960 twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, and now about three and 1500 01:37:21.039 --> 01:37:25.279 a half years ago, we held this special panel on 1501 01:37:25.680 --> 01:37:31.600 FDA reform that you organized and helped to moderate, Dan 1502 01:37:32.039 --> 01:37:36.279 and that I think is still one of the most substantive, 1503 01:37:36.319 --> 01:37:41.439 if not the most substantive discussion available on this topic. Though, 1504 01:37:41.439 --> 01:37:45.039 I would say the panel that happened at Radfest this 1505 01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:51.039 September on FDA reform that Bill Andrews participated in was 1506 01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:56.039 quite impressive as well, and Liz moderated that panel. I 1507 01:37:56.199 --> 01:38:00.159 think it was the best panel that Radfest had ad 1508 01:38:00.960 --> 01:38:05.600 organized or made space for. So Bill, I wonder if 1509 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:09.560 you'd like to talk a bit about FDA reform and 1510 01:38:10.279 --> 01:38:14.000 your efforts in that regard your impressions of the Radfest 1511 01:38:14.079 --> 01:38:14.840 panel as well. 1512 01:38:17.039 --> 01:38:19.279 Well, you know, I want to mention that Desiree Cox 1513 01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:24.239 was there too, and I actually made some comments about her, 1514 01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:27.079 and I made comments about you during that presentation. 1515 01:38:28.399 --> 01:38:30.600 But there's a. 1516 01:38:30.840 --> 01:38:33.880 Serious problem that exists in this world right now, in 1517 01:38:33.960 --> 01:38:38.880 the United States especially and maybe other countries. It's like, 1518 01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:43.520 if you are suffering from a life threatening disease and 1519 01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:46.479 you know of somebody doing some research or you heard 1520 01:38:46.520 --> 01:38:49.239 of somebody doing some research that could cure your disease, 1521 01:38:50.560 --> 01:38:53.800 you aren't allowed to even try that and you end 1522 01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:57.119 up dying as a result because you didn't even get 1523 01:38:57.119 --> 01:39:01.119 a chance to try something experimental. And that's a real 1524 01:39:01.239 --> 01:39:01.880 big problem. 1525 01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:02.520 Now. 1526 01:39:02.680 --> 01:39:07.439 Liz Parrish did her master's thesis on best Choice Medicine. 1527 01:39:07.560 --> 01:39:10.520 I think it's the best name, and I was blown 1528 01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:15.000 away by her master's presentation, her math's master's thesis, and 1529 01:39:15.079 --> 01:39:18.199 so she wanted to publish it and included me as 1530 01:39:18.239 --> 01:39:20.720 an

author. I'm honored to be an author on that 1531 01:39:20.840 --> 01:39:25.039 paper about best Choice Medicine. But it's pretty much trying 1532 01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:28.920 to reform the FDA and other organizations like that throughout 1533 01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:33.479 the world that are standing in the way of being 1534 01:39:33.560 --> 01:39:37.239 allowed at allowing people that have only one chance to 1535 01:39:37.319 --> 01:39:41.439 survive and not being able to do it and they 1536 01:39:41.520 --> 01:39:45.000 die as a result. But the other advantages to it 1537 01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:48.960 are that, you know, even though the goal is to 1538 01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:53.119 treat the person and save the person, it can also 1539 01:39:53.199 --> 01:39:56.119 be data generated from it that would be much better 1540 01:39:56.199 --> 01:40:02.039 than animal testing. And it's I mean, it won't necessarily 1541 01:40:02.079 --> 01:40:05.119 be controlled because there's not going to be any placeble 1542 01:40:05.560 --> 01:40:08.319 groups in those kind of studies. And if somebody treats 1543 01:40:08.359 --> 01:40:11.640 themselves with an experimount of drug, but I think some 1544 01:40:11.800 --> 01:40:15.279 of these people are so far gone that if they 1545 01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:18.319 suddenly get cured, you don't need a place eble to 1546 01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:23.279 show that it worked. And it's I think best choice 1547 01:40:23.319 --> 01:40:28.239 medicine is going to be something that can solve a 1548 01:40:28.439 --> 01:40:31.840 lot of problems. And during that presentation, which is available 1549 01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:39.279 right now through the Radfest website, I mentioned several times 1550 01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:42.359 the solution is best choice medicine. The solution is best 1551 01:40:42.479 --> 01:40:47.079 choice medicine, and I think everybody should watch that and 1552 01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:48.840 I think it's definitely going to be a part of 1553 01:40:48.920 --> 01:40:53.439 the march, and I think it's you know, I just 1554 01:40:53.560 --> 01:40:57.279 want to congratulate Liz Perish on what a great idea 1555 01:40:57.399 --> 01:41:01.119 this was, and what a great master's these and the 1556 01:41:01.199 --> 01:41:03.840 publication is pretty good too, all right, that's all I 1557 01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:04.359 have to say. 1558 01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:11.000 Yes, thank you very much, Bill, and we appreciate everything 1559 01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:15.640 that you have been doing to advocate for best choice medicine, 1560 01:41:15.880 --> 01:41:20.359 as well as the work of Liz Perish in writing 1561 01:41:20.479 --> 01:41:25.479 that thesis and of course moderating the panel. In terms 1562 01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:29.960 of the Radfest website, it is radfest dot com, so 1563 01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:33.479 please go there, check it out, check out the plans 1564 01:41:33.560 --> 01:41:38.439 for Radfest in twenty twenty five. Hopefully at a future 1565 01:41:38.520 --> 01:41:42.119 salon we will have Jim Stroll and Joe Bardeen as 1566 01:41:42.359 --> 01:41:47.479 our guests to discuss how Radfest is evolving and also 1567 01:41:48.039 --> 01:41:52.800 provide more information on the rally for longevity rights. But 1568 01:41:54.079 --> 01:41:59.239 see what videos are available from the Radfest website from 1569 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:02.319 the content for instance past September. Because I was really 1570 01:42:02.800 --> 01:42:06.000 pleased with it. I think the addition of these smaller 1571 01:42:06.159 --> 01:42:11.800 breakout sessions was a great idea because it was possible 1572 01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:19.000 to delve into subjects that interested particular subsets of attendees 1573 01:42:19.520 --> 01:42:23.199 to a greater extent. So thank you very much for that. 1574 01:42:23.479 --> 01:42:27.560 And Daniel please go ahead with your comment. 1575 01:42:29.439 --> 01:42:32.520 Yes, you know in the fifties, there was a big 1576 01:42:32.640 --> 01:42:36.920 craze about building bomb shelters, and the whole civil defense 1577 01:42:37.279 --> 01:42:40.079 movement seems to have kind of collapsed. But you know, 1578 01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:43.199 look at the dead in North Carolina, you know, just 1579 01:42:43.279 --> 01:42:46.479 because they built houses that were apparently not suited for 1580 01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:49.800 the environment they were living in. We should really be 1581 01:42:50.680 --> 01:42:54.039 getting together with amateur radio people and makerspace people and 1582 01:42:54.159 --> 01:42:57.800 building survival pods that are adaptable to you know, the 1583 01:42:57.920 --> 01:43:01.279 hurricanes on the east coast tornado's in the center of 1584 01:43:01.359 --> 01:43:04.159 the country, and the earthquakes on the west coast. I mean, 1585 01:43:04.399 --> 01:43:08.560 and these things could also double as a houseboat type 1586 01:43:08.920 --> 01:43:12.640 habitats too. And actually art is part of a program 1587 01:43:12.840 --> 01:43:16.720 we're we're looking at putting habitats at the commest and 1588 01:43:16.920 --> 01:43:19.520 highest solar input part of the planet, which is the 1589 01:43:19.560 --> 01:43:22.560 equator where the waves don't get big. We have a 1590 01:43:23.439 --> 01:43:27.039 community science and I'm the community science director. So consider this. 1591 01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:31.159 The community science project for the planet is Sequatoria, and 1592 01:43:31.640 --> 01:43:35.600 it involves you know, do it yourself personal survival capsules, 1593 01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:39.079 you know, and that's you know, if you die, all 1594 01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:39.800 your rights go. 1595 01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:40.800 Away, you know. 1596 01:43:41.479 --> 01:43:44.359 But there is freedom of movement apparently in the ocean. 1597 01:43:44.520 --> 01:43:49.520 If it's not available on land, so that's

worth becoming 1598 01:43:49.600 --> 01:43:53.239 involved in thinking about personal survival. Do it yourself pods 1599 01:43:53.279 --> 01:43:55.079 and you could build these things, you know, out of 1600 01:43:55.880 --> 01:44:00.479 you know, palettes and styrofoam and you know trample. People 1601 01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:03.479 are constantly getting rid of these trampoline frames. I mean, 1602 01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:07.279 the materials to build these are potentially just you know, 1603 01:44:07.399 --> 01:44:10.319 in the four digit range, and we could put out 1604 01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:13.199 plans and kits. We don't need to sell finished products, 1605 01:44:13.840 --> 01:44:16.439 So that would be a great community science project I'd 1606 01:44:16.520 --> 01:44:19.920 like to propose on this tenth anniversary of the USTP. 1607 01:44:20.359 --> 01:44:21.079 That's my comment. 1608 01:44:24.439 --> 01:44:30.680 Thank you Dan. And Sequatoria has a website. It's sequatoria 1609 01:44:31.159 --> 01:44:36.920 dot org and here is the link to access it 1610 01:44:37.279 --> 01:44:41.159 and read more about it. And I would say it 1611 01:44:41.319 --> 01:44:45.840 is important to fight death in every possible way. Bill 1612 01:44:46.039 --> 01:44:49.960 had mentioned that during his remarks. But the fact is 1613 01:44:50.119 --> 01:44:54.119 aging is not the only type of peril that can 1614 01:44:54.239 --> 01:44:59.520 befall us, and natural disasters are one example. War which 1615 01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:04.319 Lives Irish mentioned is another example. Getting into a car 1616 01:45:04.479 --> 01:45:09.720 accident is another example. Taking careless risks and getting killed 1617 01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:14.640 by a discretionary activity is another example. And I have 1618 01:45:14.760 --> 01:45:20.039 also pointed this out, especially for the younger viewers, please 1619 01:45:20.079 --> 01:45:25.600 don't take recreational drugs, because that's one way to really 1620 01:45:25.720 --> 01:45:30.840 dramatically shorten one's life expectancy, like the difference between dying 1621 01:45:30.920 --> 01:45:35.520 at thirty of an overdose and living to at least 1622 01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:40.039 eighty or so, even with the current state of medical care. 1623 01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:45.399 So I do think it's important to focus on every 1624 01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:50.079 possible way of avoiding death. I think Navin Jane also 1625 01:45:50.199 --> 01:45:56.359 said this in the documentary preview that Jose showed. Essentially 1626 01:45:56.439 --> 01:45:59.640 all of these advances are going to be available in 1627 01:45:59.680 --> 01:46:03.840 the coming decades, so don't do anything foolish to shorten 1628 01:46:04.279 --> 01:46:09.640 your lifespan right now. And yes, Mike Lausine, I did 1629 01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:15.399 just do a pr statement about not doing drugs, so 1630 01:46:16.319 --> 01:46:20.520 thank you for noticing. And we have some interesting comments 1631 01:46:21.000 --> 01:46:26.199 from our audience as well. Regarding all of these international 1632 01:46:26.640 --> 01:46:31.159 transhumanist endeavors. Luis Arroyo rights, imagine if all of these 1633 01:46:31.239 --> 01:46:35.560 parties and organizations pulled off a united action. I think 1634 01:46:35.600 --> 01:46:38.680 that can happen in the coming years, especially if in 1635 01:46:38.720 --> 01:46:42.720 the United States we create a culture of these public 1636 01:46:43.319 --> 01:46:47.359 pro radical life extension, pro transhumanist events. So let's see 1637 01:46:47.399 --> 01:46:50.960 how this rally for longevity rights goes and see then 1638 01:46:51.039 --> 01:46:55.199 if we could coordinate some sort of effort with our 1639 01:46:55.279 --> 01:46:59.319 fellow transhumanists in Europe as well and in other parts 1640 01:46:59.359 --> 01:47:04.199 of the world. Also, in regard to motivations for getting 1641 01:47:04.239 --> 01:47:06.960 people to support our movement, Luis writes that seeing the 1642 01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:10.000 future one wants to live in or create can help 1643 01:47:10.039 --> 01:47:14.039 a lot. And I will also point out William Gibson's 1644 01:47:14.079 --> 01:47:16.520 statement that the future is already here, it's just not 1645 01:47:16.680 --> 01:47:21.479 evenly distributed. So be on the lookout for examples of 1646 01:47:21.560 --> 01:47:25.439 the future being already here, with generative AI, for instance, 1647 01:47:25.520 --> 01:47:29.159 and the capabilities that it can put at your fingertips, 1648 01:47:29.319 --> 01:47:32.760 or going to these virtual enlightenment salons where we will 1649 01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:36.199 bring in some leading innovators to talk about their work 1650 01:47:36.239 --> 01:47:39.199 and their research, and you will see it here earlier, 1651 01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:44.760 much earlier than you will see it in the mainstream conversation. Also, 1652 01:47:45.159 --> 01:47:50.079 I think it's important to pay attention to what inspired 1653 01:47:50.159 --> 01:47:54.119 people to join our movement in the first place. So 1654 01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:58.600 Mike Lazine said that he has been a transhumanist ever 1655 01:47:59.119 --> 01:48:01.800 since he was a young person. He was interested in 1656 01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:06.560 popular mechanics, popular science, and another magazine he recalled the 1657 01:48:06.680 --> 01:48:10.920 name it was Omni Magazine, which he hadn't seen in years, 1658 01:48:11.039 --> 01:48:14.439 but it was available when Mike was a kid, and 1659 01:48:14.640 --> 01:48:21.680 there were proto transhumanist types of publications or films or 1660 01:48:22.079 --> 01:48:27.239 even computer games that were available when most of us 1661 01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:30.840 were much younger, even when many of us were kids, 1662 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:36.039 and those are gateways into transhumanism. So not only do 1663

01:48:36.159 --> 01:48:39.680 we need to create new art and new media ourselves, 1664 01:48:40.239 --> 01:48:43.840 we should also think of creative ways to use existing 1665 01:48:44.640 --> 01:48:51.319 cultural products to get people interested in transhumanism. And now 1666 01:48:52.079 --> 01:48:56.359 we have five minutes left in this special tenth anniversary stream. 1667 01:48:56.720 --> 01:49:00.199 I would like to open this up to anybody who 1668 01:49:00.359 --> 01:49:04.560 has some comments to make before I make closing remarks 1669 01:49:04.720 --> 01:49:08.359 of my own. But this is your opportunity, hose A, 1670 01:49:08.520 --> 01:49:09.239 please go ahead. 1671 01:49:10.560 --> 01:49:13.760 Yes, I am very very excited. As you have seen, 1672 01:49:15.159 --> 01:49:17.680 I believe we live in magical times. 1673 01:49:18.279 --> 01:49:22.159 We are between the last mortal generation and the first 1674 01:49:22.399 --> 01:49:27.039 in mortal generation. So we have to accelerate this process 1675 01:49:27.640 --> 01:49:33.520 both scientifically, politically, also socially artistically. 1676 01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:35.920 And that is what we want to do in other 1677 01:49:36.000 --> 01:49:36.800 countries as well. 1678 01:49:37.239 --> 01:49:44.000 We have to collaborate the USA, Spain, Germany, Russia because 1679 01:49:44.039 --> 01:49:47.920 the biggest enemy of humanity is aging and death. The 1680 01:49:48.159 --> 01:49:52.640 enemy is not Russia. The enemy is not the Martians. No, 1681 01:49:52.760 --> 01:49:56.199 the Martians are not our enemy. They even exist. Yet 1682 01:49:56.640 --> 01:49:59.840 the enemy of all of humanity is agent and the 1683 01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:03.640 and we have to collaborate, we have to work together, 1684 01:50:03.800 --> 01:50:07.880 we have to accelerate this because every single day, one 1685 01:50:08.000 --> 01:50:13.279 hundred thousand people die of age related disease, one hundred 1686 01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:18.359 thousand people. And in fact, in OECD countries, in advanced 1687 01:50:18.399 --> 01:50:21.560 economies like the USA, Europe, Japan. 1688 01:50:21.960 --> 01:50:25.880 Ninety percent of the people, ninety percent die of age 1689 01:50:26.159 --> 01:50:27.239 related diseases. 1690 01:50:27.600 --> 01:50:32.399 They don't die of the Martians, of climate change, of terrorism, 1691 01:50:32.840 --> 01:50:36.920 of wars of age, even though some people die of that, 1692 01:50:37.119 --> 01:50:41.640 but altogether it's only ten percent, while ninety percent die 1693 01:50:41.720 --> 01:50:45.720 of age related diseases. So that's the common enemy of humanity, 1694 01:50:46.039 --> 01:50:49.239 and that is what we should drive forward altogether. 1695 01:50:51.319 --> 01:50:54.920 Yes, indeed, thank you very much Jose for those remarks. 1696 01:50:54.960 --> 01:50:58.920 And indeed, aging and death are are common enemies. And 1697 01:50:59.319 --> 01:51:03.680 sometimes it is useful to have a common enemy to 1698 01:51:03.840 --> 01:51:07.560 rally people around. But it's so tragic that so often, 1699 01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:12.920 historically that common enemy has been some group of other people, 1700 01:51:13.079 --> 01:51:15.520 and that has led to a lot of destruction. But 1701 01:51:15.680 --> 01:51:20.279 if we can indeed create and advance this narrative of 1702 01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:24.439 the common enemies being aging and death and the forces 1703 01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:28.640 of ruin that I mentioned. That will also inspire people, 1704 01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:32.039 and that will drive people to advance the kinds of 1705 01:51:32.159 --> 01:51:36.439 technologies that we need to solve this problem of aging 1706 01:51:36.760 --> 01:51:40.800 that is affecting all of us. If people considered it 1707 01:51:40.960 --> 01:51:45.079 to be solvable, if people saw a sense of meaning 1708 01:51:45.279 --> 01:51:49.000 and purpose in that, we would have an entirely different world. 1709 01:51:49.079 --> 01:51:51.680 And that is the kind of world that the Transhumanist 1710 01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:57.720 Party will strive to advance. And I want to thank 1711 01:51:57.960 --> 01:52:02.840 everybody in our panel today, those who joined us earlier 1712 01:52:02.960 --> 01:52:07.399 such as Zulten, Ishtvan and Liz Parrish, as well as 1713 01:52:07.439 --> 01:52:14.079 those who are still here Charlie, Tom Dan and Daniel 1714 01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:19.720 as well jose Bill art ramon the quality of our 1715 01:52:19.800 --> 01:52:25.840 people is what leads to our movement being able to 1716 01:52:26.640 --> 01:52:31.680 metaphorically punch above its weight, so to speak, because we 1717 01:52:32.079 --> 01:52:35.079 currently have about forty four hundred members, and that is 1718 01:52:35.119 --> 01:52:40.279 certainly a larger number than existed ten years ago when 1719 01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:46.359 Zulten started. Really there were three members of the Transhumanist Party, 1720 01:52:46.760 --> 01:52:52.039 Zultan and then Rowan Horn, who was his videographer, and myself. 1721 01:52:52.239 --> 01:52:55.439 Of course. Sultan garnered a lot of publicity through kind 1722 01:52:55.479 --> 01:53:00.520 of solo efforts reaching out to journalists driving the immortality ebus, 1723 01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:03.680 but this is truly a joint effort and we need 1724 01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:07.600 the brightest minds in the world to collaborate on this effort. 1725 01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:09.720 And I think we do have some of the brightest 1726 01:53:09.800 --> 01:53:13.439 minds in the world in the Transhumanist Party. We just 1727 01:53:13.640 --> 01:53:17.239 need to continue reaching out to additional bright minds, and 1728 01:53:17.279 --> 01:53:20.119 if you think you're one of them, please join us 1729 01:53:20.560 --> 01:53:25.359 at Transhumanist dash party dot org slash membership. That is 1730 01:53:25.720 --> 01:53:30.199 a way to start, though it is definitely not the 1731 01:53:30.359 --> 01:53:35.439 only action that we would hope to see from you. 1732 01:53:36.079 --> 01:53:40.359 There's so much that any given individual can contribute, and 1733 01:53:40.479 --> 01:53:42.640 you can just see by the people who are here 1734 01:53:43.239 --> 01:53:46.840 and their remarks and their involvement what it is possible 1735 01:53:47.159 --> 01:53:50.960 to accomplish when we set our minds to it. And 1736 01:53:51.479 --> 01:53:56.520 Daniel is showing this QR code associated with our tenth birthday, 1737 01:53:56.880 --> 01:54:00.199 so please scan that QR code with your phone if 1738 01:54:00.239 --> 01:54:03.439 you can, and see where it leads you. And in 1739 01:54:03.560 --> 01:54:06.800 the meantime, I hope that we can all live long 1740 01:54:07.479 --> 01:54:08.119 and prosper