{"id":31608,"date":"2016-11-02T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/ama-im-zoltan-istvan-a-transhumanist-us-presidential-candidate-ask-me-anything-futurology"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:14","slug":"ama-im-zoltan-istvan-a-transhumanist-us-presidential-candidate-ask-me-anything-futurology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/ama-im-zoltan-istvan-a-transhumanist-us-presidential-candidate-ask-me-anything-futurology","title":{"rendered":"AMA: I\u2019m Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist US Presidential Candidate. Ask me anything!! : Futurology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.ama-im-zoltan-istvan-a-transhumanist-us-presidential-candidate-ask-me-anything-futurology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come \u201cask me anything\u201d right now!!! I\u2019m trying to answer all questions I get asked:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hi Reddit,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having me here. My name is Zoltan Istvan, and I\u2019m a futurist, journalist, and science fiction writer. I\u2019m also the 2016 Presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.<\/p>\n<p>For the last 725 days, I have been campaigning full time to spread transhumanism and life extension policies across America and the world. While I never expected to win the US Presidency, my campaign has received a lot of attention\u2014both good and bad\u2014for its emphasis on radical science, technology, secularism, and futurist ideas.<\/p>\n<p>During my campaign, I\u2019ve spoken on transhumanism at the World Bank, consulted with the US Navy on artificial intelligence, got a chip implanted in my hand, interviewed with underground group Anonymous, and drove a coffin-shaped bus called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immortalitybus.com\/\">Immortality Bus<\/a> across America to deliver a Transhumanist Bill of Rights to the US Capitol. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transhumanistparty.org\/Platform.html\">20-point<\/a> political platform has many futurist policies in it, but some of the most important ones are supporting a Universal Basic Income, classifying aging as a disease, legalizing all drugs, creating a Transhumanist Olympics, and taking money from the military and giving it to science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come \u201cask me anything\u201d right now!!! I\u2019m trying to answer all questions I get asked: Hi Reddit, Thank you for having me here. My name is Zoltan Istvan, and I\u2019m a futurist, journalist, and science fiction writer. I\u2019m also the 2016 Presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party. For the last 725 days, I have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,39,5,269,9,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31608","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=31608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49658,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31608\/revisions\/49658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}