{"id":86078,"date":"2018-12-24T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/should-we-replace-ourselves-zoltan-istvan-vs-jfg-tps-257"},"modified":"2018-12-24T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T16:02:40","slug":"should-we-replace-ourselves-zoltan-istvan-vs-jfg-tps-257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/should-we-replace-ourselves-zoltan-istvan-vs-jfg-tps-257","title":{"rendered":"Should We Replace Ourselves? | Zoltan Istvan vs. JFG, TPS #257"},"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\/9MdsF3P8bjw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was in a really interesting 1-hour debate yesterday with Jean-Francois Gari\u00e9py who runs a well-known YouTube channel The Public Space, sometimes associated with the Alt-Right. We discussed #transhumanism. I think the debate caught a lot of people by surprise. While I believe in and embrace total diversity, I despise the oppression of human biology and death, and advocate for any means possible to overcome it\u2014including genetic modification and merging with machines. The debate makes me look like the aggressor. But it only proves what I\u2019ve always said, that issues of race and traditional cultural bigotry are minor compared to the issues of humanity battling aging and death itself. All of us are currently in a war to not die:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An important debate on whether or not humanity should play with their own genes. Guest: Zoltan Istvan, transhumanist.<\/p>\n<p>Zoltan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoltan_istvan\" class=\"\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDwQ6TgYACITCPHn38HruN8CFVitxAodbigNuSj4HUi83PGf94Lb4_QB\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoltan_istvan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoltan_istvan\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoltan_istvan<\/a><\/a><br \/> Zoltan on the Web: <a href=\"\/redirect?v=9MdsF3P8bjw&redir_token=VOa1EuqhJ8LHczUBpvyhTdr9CQJ8MTU0NTc1MzczMUAxNTQ1NjY3MzMx&event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoltanistvan.com%2F\" class=\"\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDwQ6TgYACITCPHn38HruN8CFVitxAodbigNuSj4HUi83PGf94Lb4_QB\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-url=\"\/redirect?v=9MdsF3P8bjw&redir_token=VOa1EuqhJ8LHczUBpvyhTdr9CQJ8MTU0NTc1MzczMUAxNTQ1NjY3MzMx&event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoltanistvan.com%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/\">http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan: <a href=\"\/redirect?v=9MdsF3P8bjw&redir_token=VOa1EuqhJ8LHczUBpvyhTdr9CQJ8MTU0NTc1MzczMUAxNTQ1NjY3MzMx&event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoltanistvan.com%2FTranshumanistWager.html\" class=\"\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDwQ6TgYACITCPHn38HruN8CFVitxAodbigNuSj4HUi83PGf94Lb4_QB\" data-target-new-window=\"True\" data-url=\"\/redirect?v=9MdsF3P8bjw&redir_token=VOa1EuqhJ8LHczUBpvyhTdr9CQJ8MTU0NTc1MzczMUAxNTQ1NjY3MzMx&event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zoltanistvan.com%2FTranshumanistWager.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/TranshumanistWager.html\">http:\/\/www.zoltanistvan.com\/TranshumanistWager.html<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JF\u2019s book, The Revolutionary Phenotype, is out!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/should-we-replace-ourselves-zoltan-istvan-vs-jfg-tps-257\">Continue reading \u201cShould We Replace Ourselves? | Zoltan Istvan vs. JFG, TPS #257\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a really interesting 1-hour debate yesterday with Jean-Francois Gari\u00e9py who runs a well-known YouTube channel The Public Space, sometimes associated with the Alt-Right. We discussed #transhumanism. I think the debate caught a lot of people by surprise. While I believe in and embrace total diversity, I despise the oppression of human biology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412,418,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics","category-internet","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86078","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=86078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}