Transhumanist Party
The U.S. Transhumanist Party is focused on policy rather than politics as conventionally defined. We value initiatives and reforms that will improve the human condition for as many people as possible, with as much beneficial impact as possible – and without regard for scoring political points or defeating “the other side”. We seek to achieve the next, greatest era of our civilization, which will require constructive solutions to the problems of our current era. All of these problems can be solved if we look away from the political trench warfare of today and up toward a far brighter future.
Core Ideals:
Ideal 1. The Transhumanist Party supports significant life extension achieved through the progress of science and technology.
Ideal 2. The Transhumanist Party supports a cultural, societal, and political atmosphere informed and animated by reason, science, and secular values.
Ideal 3. The Transhumanist Party supports efforts to use science, technology, and rational discourse to reduce and eliminate various existential risks to the human species.
Values and Goals from our Platform:
Below is just a selection of some of our key values and goals, as determined by votes of our members, but we have many other ideas as well, and we also frame the ideas below with a great deal of thought and detail.
• Individual privacy and liberty over how to apply technology to one’s personal life.
• Tolerance and inclusivity of all individuals of all races, genders, classes, religions, creeds, national origins, and other characteristics.
• Support of most technologies but opposition to certain detrimental technologies (e.g., weapons of mass destruction, privacy-infringing technologies, engineering of new pathogens).
• Opposition to nuclear weapons, support of complete nuclear disarmament, even if unilateral.
• Support of research on eradicating disease.
• Morphological freedom.
• Support of all values and efforts toward cultivation of science, technology, reason.
• Support of all emerging technologies that improve the human condition, including:
° Autonomous vehicles
° Electric vehicles
° Economical solar power
° Safe nuclear power
° Hydroelectricity
° Geothermal power
° Applications for the sharing of durable goods
° Artificial intelligence
° Biotechnology
° Nanotechnology
° Robotics
° Rapid transit
° 3D printing
° Vertical farming
° Electronic devices to detect and respond to trauma
° Beneficial genetic modification of plants, animals, and human beings
• Ending the drug war.
• Reforming the prison system to reduce the incarcerated population.
• Universal Basic Income (UBI) – not conditional on life circumstances, occupations, other income, or wealth.
• Reasonable measures to fund space travel.
• Using science and technology to eliminate disabilities.
• Ending the two-party duopoly.
• Life extension / anti-aging.
• Removal of barriers to medical research and deployment of treatments.
• Reducing the national debt.
• Alternative sources of energy and their technological implementations.
• Increasing the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
• Support for political, economic, and cultural experimentation – e.g., seasteads and micronations.
• Children’s rights proportional to their rational faculties.
• Animal welfare (but not “animal liberation”).
• Opposition to intolerant, rights-violating, anti-technological, and compulsion-imposing doctrines, be they religious or secular.
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