{"id":33168,"date":"2017-01-04T20:15:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T04:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-transhumanist-paradox-33c3"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:26:07","slug":"the-transhumanist-paradox-33c3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-transhumanist-paradox-33c3","title":{"rendered":"The Transhumanist Paradox [33c3]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\"><\/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\/iLr7E2Ms4Y4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a political theory researcher at Sciences Po, and this talk draws on modern political theories of liberalism, the latest transhumanist literature, and ancient Greek theories of the good life.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Transhumanist Paradox.<\/p>\n<p>Deciding between technological utopias in a liberal state.<\/p>\n<p>How does a pluralist society \u2013 a society built to accommodate our irreconcilable differences \u2013 make a choice about the technological future of mankind? How can a liberal state dedicated to upholding individual liberty interfere in technological progress, and why should it?<\/p>\n<p>Do we really want to leave our technological futures in the hands of the major AI researchers \u2013 Google, Facebook, and the US Defense Department?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/the-transhumanist-paradox-33c3\">Continue reading \u201cThe Transhumanist Paradox [33c3]\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a political theory researcher at Sciences Po, and this talk draws on modern political theories of liberalism, the latest transhumanist literature, and ancient Greek theories of the good life.\u201d The Transhumanist Paradox. Deciding between technological utopias in a liberal state. How does a pluralist society \u2013 a society built to accommodate our irreconcilable differences [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1490,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59262,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33168\/revisions\/59262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}