{"id":238254,"date":"2026-06-03T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/zoltan-istvan-the-transhumanist-wager-is-a-choice-well-all-have-to-make"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:03:52","slug":"zoltan-istvan-the-transhumanist-wager-is-a-choice-well-all-have-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/zoltan-istvan-the-transhumanist-wager-is-a-choice-well-all-have-to-make","title":{"rendered":"Zoltan Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager Is A Choice We\u2019ll All Have To Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zoltan-istvan-the-transhumanist-wager-is-a-choice-well-all-have-to-make.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/201114907-singularity1on1-zoltan-istvan.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years ago, I sat down with a writer who had just published his first novel.<\/p>\n<p>It was Zoltan Istvan\u2019s very first media interview as a book author.<\/p>\n<p>The book was The Transhumanist Wager. The question behind it was simple and almost unbearable: what would you do, and what would you give up, to live forever?<\/p>\n<p>I loved half of it. I argued with the other half. That tension is exactly why I think it still matters.<\/p>\n<p>Zoltan built his story out of Plato and Nietzsche, out of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia and Zen Buddhism, then wrapped it all in an Atlas Shrugged plot of lone heroes and evil states. The philosophy is sophisticated. The framing is stark. The contradictions are not a flaw. They are the point.<\/p>\n<p>One line from our conversation has stayed with me for more than a decade:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/zoltan-istvan-the-transhumanist-wager-is-a-choice-well-all-have-to-make\">Continue reading \u201cZoltan Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager Is A Choice We\u2019ll All Have To Make\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years ago, I sat down with a writer who had just published his first novel. It was Zoltan Istvan\u2019s very first media interview as a book author. The book was The Transhumanist Wager. The question behind it was simple and almost unbearable: what would you do, and what would you give up, to live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,269,1965,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-ethics","category-life-extension","category-mapping","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238254","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}