Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

On Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time,  the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Andreas Melhede and Namkhai Ferdaña, co-founders of Elata Biosciences (formerly HappyDAO) to discuss the many recent developments at Elata Biosciences and the significant growth in the approach of Decentralized Science (DeSci) more generally in seeking to cure diseases and develop innovative medicines. E...

On Sunday, December 29, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the second virtual concert featuring Futuristic Neoclassical Music composed by Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, with most pieces digitally remastered by Jason Geringer, USTP Legislative Director, to give each piece a crisp, futuristic sound. This concert also features two compositions remastered by Nikm...

On Sunday, December 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Kai Micah Mills to discuss HydraDAO, his latest decentralized autonomous organization, whose mission is to enable biological replacement parts for humans, including whole-body replacement, with the ultimate goal of radically extending the human lifespan. HydraDAO pursues an engineering approach to solvi...

It is unprecedented for pirates to be guests of honor at an Enlightenment Salon, but this is now happening! On Sunday, December 15, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites representatives of the U.S. Pirate Party to discuss issues which the two parties have in common and ways to build bridges to contribute to a more vibrant minor-party influence on American politics...

On Sunday, December 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the compilation of classic videos by Gennady Stolyarov II from his “Eliminating Death” series, which discusses the desirability and feasibility of achieving indefinite life extension within our lifetimes.

On Sunday, December 1, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the premiere of The 52 Weeks – a grand concerto in the Baroque style, consisting of 52 movements representing each of the weeks of the year. The music was generated using the Udio v1.5 AI platform using prompts by U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II. Mr. Stolyarov curated the music and utilized the DALL-E 3, Grok 2,...

On Sunday, November 24, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Alex Afshar of Age Reversal Unity to discuss the Citizen Petition to Declare Aging a Disease, which was launched by his organization, as well as the other activism efforts by Age Reversal Unity to mobilize public support for combating biological aging. Age Reversal Unity is working to create a world wit...

On Sunday, November 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Alex Crouch of the Revival Research Group to discuss efforts to accelerate research on cryostasis revival through collaboration and open-source methods that benefit the entire longevity community. The conversation will include discussions of the Revival Research Group’s innovative uses of artificial int...

On Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Dr. Dan Elton, for a special Virtual Enlightenment Salon where he will present on two events that he recently attended: (i) The October 31 Halloween (Im)Mortality Salon, co-hosted by the Longevity Biotech Fellowship, Augmentation Lab, and the Foresight Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and (ii) The...

On Sunday, November 3, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, listen as the AI hosts of the NotebookLM “Deep Dive” podcast analyze transhumanism, the U.S. Transhumanist Party and the 2024 U.S. Presidential campaign of Tom Ross, on the basis of various writings, previous Virtual Enlightenment Salon videos, and articles.  This is a compilation of AI-generated podcast conversations, arranged in sequence,...

On Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch a near-comprehensive compilation of the campaign videos and graphics from the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s endorsed 2024 U.S. Presidential/Vice-Presidential ticket of Tom Ross and Daniel Twedt. These unique and highly creative media assets are some of the most innovative political marketing work in history; they have been deployed to sp...

On Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party will host a special campaign livestream with its endorsed 2024 U.S. Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates, Tom Ross and Daniel Twedt. Our candidates will provide their messages to the voters in advance of the U.S. General Election and will be available to answer viewer questions.  Chairman Gennady Stolya...

On Sunday, October 13, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Giovanni Santostasi, PhD, to continue our in-depth exploration of his Bitcoin Power-Law Theory, including questions such as the following: - What attributes or phenomena enable Bitcoin to have value? - Why is Bitcoin in particular subject to the power law, and apparently not other cryptocurrencies, inclu...

On Sunday, October 6, 2024, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Virtual Enlightenment Salon features a celebration of two noteworthy events – the 10-year anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Transhumanist Party by Zoltan Istvan on October 7, 2014, as well as the ongoing International Longevity Month, which has occurred every year since 2013.  Notable individuals from the USTP...

On Sunday, September 29, 2024, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Giovanni Santostasi, Ph. D., to discuss his research into historical price movements of Bitcoin and his view that the long-term price movements, as well as other aspects of Bitcoin’s adoption, follow a power law.  In Dr. Santostasi’s words, “Power laws are mathematical expressions of the form y=A x^n and are ubiquitous in nature b...

On Sunday, September 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this stream of the discussion between Andreas Xirtus and U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II on recent developments in the pursuit of radical life extension and key considerations in science, philosophy, and lifestyle that can maximize our probabilities of reaching longevity escape velocity. Key figures whose acti...

On Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites its 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate, Daniel Twedt (amateur radio call sign KK6VDR), to discuss the history of amateur radio, current developments in this field, applications of amateur radio toward supporting our civilization in emergencies and in citizen-science efforts, relevance of amateur radio to...

On Sunday, September 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this special Virtual Enlightenment Salon where Dr. Dan Elton, the U.S. Transhumanist Party Director of Scholarship, recaps his experiences at the August 24 Human Augmentation Summit in Cambridge, MA, as well as at a special August 31 event with Dr. David Sinclair and Dr. Manolis Kellis, in Marblehead, MA. A panel of U.S. Transhumanis...

On Sunday, September 1, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Kai Micah Mills, one of the co-founders of CryoDAO, to discuss how decentralized science and funding are being deployed to accelerate high-impact research into cryopreservation.   CryoDAO is a decentralized community of scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and advocates whose objective is to contribute t...

On Sunday, August 25, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Professor Robin Hanson to discuss his thoughts on the future of civilization, including the possibility of civilizational decline due to cultural drift and how to avoid this outcome. Some topics addressed will include declining fertility throughout the world, possible cultural responses, implications for...

On Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites writer and retired Lieutenant Colonel Allen Crowley to discuss historical U.S. military preparations to respond to potential conflicts in the Middle East, such as a missile exchange between Iran and Israel.  Allen grew up in a castle, listening to lions roar at dusk and playing in the wilderness near the...

On Sunday, August 4, 2024, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Peter Voss to discuss his thoughts on the desired directions for future development of artificial intelligence in the effort to reach artificial general intelligence (AGI). He will explain why large-language models (LLMs) are not the path to AGI and what a more promising approach would involve. Peter Voss is an innovator, serial entre...

On Sunday, July 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Dr. Abdelhadi Rebbaa to discuss his views regarding the potential and limitations for using senolytics to treat aging and go over alternative/complementary approaches to delay senescence onset.  Dr. Abdelhadi Rebbaa received his PhD in Biochemistry from the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France. He held r...

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s conversation with Dr. Benjamin Rosman of the University of the Witwatersrand and Singularity University South Africa, who provided a thorough discussion of the future of work in a world of rapid automation. 

On Sunday, July 14, 2024, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party 2024 U.S. Presidential Candidate Tom Ross and U.S. Vice-Presidential Candidate Daniel Twedt will respond to the questions posed during the Free and Equal Elections Foundation Presidential Debate #2, which will be held on June 12, 2024, at FreedomFest in Las Vegas. The Ross-Twedt ticket will receive the same questions as...