S6E8 - The Future of Humanity: Plus

Cult or Just Weird

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What would you say you... do... here?

Chris dunks on a doofy website for 40 minutes straight; it is also possible we learn some things about Transhumanism along the way.

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*Search Categories*

Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom; New Religious Movement

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*Topic Spoiler*

Humanity+

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*Further Reading*

https://www.britannica.com/topic/transhumanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanity%2B

H+'s website: https://www.humanityplus.org/

H+'s weird, tiny, self published "news articles" (also an example of their liberal/left leaning): https://www.humanityplus.org/news/transhumanists-condemn-police-brutality

other sites in the H+ "webring":

https://willeadership.io/

https://healthspanaction.org/healthspan-action-coalition/

H+ hosted zoom roundtable on Transhumanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdjMoykqxys

H+'s weird mission statement: https://www.humanityplus.org/about

Max More's blog post on the definition of Transhumanism: https://www.humanityplus.org/philsophy-of-transhumanism

Two articles from early 2000s on the left/right schism in Transhumanism:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060313212747/http://www.twliterary.com/jhughes_utne.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20061231222833/http://www.slate.com/id/2142987/fr/rss/

Notable Transhumanists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hughes_(sociologist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_More

Extropianism? What's that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropianism

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/extropianism_n?tl=true

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