{"id":102651,"date":"2020-02-22T04:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/can-transhumanism-end-suffering-david-pearce-interview"},"modified":"2020-02-22T04:17:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:17:36","slug":"can-transhumanism-end-suffering-david-pearce-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/can-transhumanism-end-suffering-david-pearce-interview","title":{"rendered":"Can transhumanism end suffering? David Pearce interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fah3LWF6Yzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I recently interviewed David Pearce, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+). We discuss how the transhumanist movement has changed over the past couple of decades, what obstacles it faces and how it should engage with politics. Planning a whole series of interviews on transhumanism\/futurism related topics on the channel so please do subscribe if that interests you!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>My interview with David Pearce, a leading transhumanist thinker and co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+). We discuss how the transhumanist movement has changed over the past couple of decades, what obstacles it faces and whether the technologies it advocates could end all human and animal suffering.<\/p>\n<p>My Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JBickertonUK\">@JBickertonUK<\/a><br \/> David\u2019s Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/webmasterdave\">@webmasterdave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently interviewed David Pearce, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association (now Humanity+). We discuss how the transhumanist movement has changed over the past couple of decades, what obstacles it faces and how it should engage with politics. Planning a whole series of interviews on transhumanism\/futurism related topics on the channel so please do subscribe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}