{"id":195624,"date":"2024-09-03T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/why-transhumanism-is-unrealistic-and-immoral"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T00:22:54","slug":"why-transhumanism-is-unrealistic-and-immoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/why-transhumanism-is-unrealistic-and-immoral","title":{"rendered":"Why Transhumanism Is Unrealistic and Immoral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here the notorious but eloquent transhumanism critic Wesley J. Smith takes a swipe at the quickly growing movement to overcome death with science. New story in Merion West<\/i>!<\/p>\n

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\u201cUtopians often produce evil because their movement\u2019s aspirations become paramount <\/i>\u2014that is, more important than avoiding acts \u2018traditionally perceived as immoral.\u2019 If enough people follow Istvan on the transhuman roller coaster, people could eventually get hurt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not afraid of dying. I just don\u2019t want to be there when it happens.\u201d \u2013 Woody Allen.<\/p>\n

In 2016, transhumanism proselytizer Zoltan Istvan ran for president<\/a> promising to defeat death while touring the country in a bus redesigned to look like a coffin. It was a great gimmick that made him, perhaps, the most famous transhumanist in the world.<\/p>\n

I know and like Istvan. I admire his indefatigable work ethic that has him writing hundreds of transhumanist-boosting columns and engaging in<\/a> countless interviews (including by opponents like me). But his recent piece<\/a> in Merion West<\/i> \u201cWhen We\u2019re Overly Optimistic about the Pace of Life Extension Research\u201d took a dark and disturbing turn. He warns that at the current pace of life-extending research, the transhumanist goal of living indefinitely will not be attained during his lifetime (based on a formula he concocted he calls, \u201cthe senescence inference\u201d). In 2,131, he moans, our expected lifespan will \u201conly\u201d be 165 years, and it will take \u201cwell over a millennium to attain Methuselah-like lifespans nearing 1,000 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here the notorious but eloquent transhumanism critic Wesley J. Smith takes a swipe at the quickly growing movement to overcome death with science. New story in Merion West! \u201cUtopians often produce evil because their movement\u2019s aspirations become paramount \u2014that is, more important than avoiding acts \u2018traditionally perceived as immoral.\u2019 If enough people follow Istvan on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195624","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}