{"id":88989,"date":"2019-03-28T06:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/3-reasons-why-ending-suffering-should-be-the-1-transhumanist-priority-article"},"modified":"2019-03-28T06:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:42:39","slug":"3-reasons-why-ending-suffering-should-be-the-1-transhumanist-priority-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/3-reasons-why-ending-suffering-should-be-the-1-transhumanist-priority-article","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Why \u201cEnding Suffering\u201d Should Be the #1 Transhumanist Priority \u2013 Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY HANK PELLISSIER<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Hank Pellissier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> The U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party features this proposal by our member Hank Pellissier for a new website called Paradise2040, which will focus on the abolition of involuntary suffering and incremental ways of getting there within the next 21 years. This is an endeavor supported by Article IV of the <a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/tbr-3\/\">Transhumanist Bill of Rights, Version 3.0<\/a>. It is also a current within transhumanist thinking that, as Mr. Pellissier points out, could bring additional support to the movement. Different transhumanists will have different views as to what <\/em>the <em>most important aims of transhumanism should be. As an organization that embraces pluralism and diversity of thought, the U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party would encourage any of our members who agree with the direction Mr. Pellissier proposes to collaborate with him on the creation of the Paradise2040 website.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>~ Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party, March 25, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET2\/more\/pellissier20120909\">survey<\/a><\/strong> I conducted in 2010 of 818 transhumanists identified \u201cbrain enhancement\u201d as the #1 priority, with \u201cmaximizing\u201d health and life extension as #2 and #3. The top three \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/values\/\"><strong>values<\/strong><\/a>\u201d of the U.S. Transhumanist Party (the Core Ideals) are #1) Life Extension, #2) \u201ca cultural, societal, and political atmosphere informed and animated by reason, science, and secular values\u201d, and #3) \u201cto reduce and eliminate existential risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/2019\/03\/26\/3-reasons-ending-suffering\/\">http:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/2019\/03\/26\/3-reasons-ending-suffering\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY HANK PELLISSIER Hank Pellissier Editor\u2019s Note: The U.S. Transhumanist Party \/ Transhuman Party features this proposal by our member Hank Pellissier for a new website called Paradise2040, which will focus on the abolition of involuntary suffering and incremental ways of getting there within the next 21 years. This is an endeavor supported by Article [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,269,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-geopolitics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88989","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=88989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}