10 insights from the transhumanist wager, with zoltan istvan
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Listen to the full interview at www.33voices.com/zoltan-istvan/audio Bestselling visionary author Zoltan Istvan, an American-Hungarian, began a solo, multi-year sailing journey around the world at the age of 21. His main cargo was 500 handpicked books, mostly classics. He's explored over 100 countries—many as a journalist for the National Geographic Channel—writing, filming, and appearing in dozens of television stories, articles, and webcasts. His work has also been featured by The New York Times Syndicate, Outside, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC Radio, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel. In addition to his award-winning coverage of the war in Kashmir, he gained worldwide attention for pioneering and popularizing the extreme sport of volcano boarding. Zoltan later became a director for the international conservation group WildAid, leading armed patrol units to stop the billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade in Southeast Asia. Back in America, he started various successful businesses, from real estate development to filmmaking to viticulture, joining them under ZI Ventures. He is a philosophy and religious studies graduate of Columbia University and resides in San Francisco with his daughter and physician wife. Zoltan recently published The Transhumanist Wager, a fictional thriller describing apatheist Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. He is the author of The Transhumanist Wager.TRANSCRIPT
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Zoltan IstvanBegan a solo, multi-year sailing journey around the world at
the age of 21. Explored over 100 countries—many as a journalist for the
National Geographic Channel—writing, filming, and appear-ing in dozens of television stories, articles, and webcasts.
His work has been featured by The New York Times Syndi-cate, Outside, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC Radio, NBC, ABC,
CBS, FOX, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel.
@Zoltan_Istvan
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The transhuman movement is a philosophy that moves you beyond your human biology.
test it for yourself.
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Technology is shrinking the gap between artificial intelligence and human intelligence.
expect it to accelerate its pace.
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When we as a society start to abandon the laws of dogma and instead embrace reason,we’ll begin to think rationally.
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Religion is highly personal,
but spiritually is universal.
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If you value your mortality,take control of your evolutionary destiny.
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Don’t be trapped by money,harness your potential instead.
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Don’t be trapped by money,harness your potential instead.
33voicesZoltan Istvan - Achieving Your Potential
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Life is not a series of either/or decisions.
be open to the ‘and’.
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Kindness pays huge dividends.
express it often!
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Life’s greatest risks are beyond your control.
LIVE IN THE MOMENT
but keep an eye at what’s happening at the edges.
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The three laws of Transhumanism to help you navigate the future are:
A transhumanist must...
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The three laws of Transhumanism to help you navigate the future are:
A transhumanist must...safeguard one’s own existence
above all else
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The three laws of Transhumanism to help you navigate the future are:
A transhumanist must...strive to achieve omnipotence
as expediently as possible, so long as one’s actions do not
conflict with the First Law.
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The three laws of Transhumanism to help you navigate the future are:
A transhumanist must...safeguard value in the universe,
as long as one’s actions do not conflict with the First and Second Laws
Really reflect...
Would you live differently if you had a sense of your mortality?
Really reflect...
