Transhumanist Debate — A Futurist Salon
May 24, 2016
We are going to try to pick up where Hank Pellissier left off and will be having another transhumanist debate and futurist salon on May 28th at the Octopus.
Here is the lineup for the salon:
- Sharing Economy – A discussion of what some call the “access economy,” including Anatoly Karlin talking about SetNGo and a representative from Hylo.
- Technology in Service to Ecological Flourishing – Josh Whiton
- Charity Priorities: Existential Risk vs. Global Poverty, with Scott Jackisch and Mike Johnson
(credit: Octopus Literary Salon)
We will be socializing before and after the presentations.
Food and drink will be available for purchase.
Please bring your curiosity and your insights, we will set aside a good portion of time for questions and answers.
Admission will be on a sliding scale with $10 as the suggested contribution. Pay either here on Meetup.com or at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
About the participants:
(credit: Octopus Literary Salon)
Anatoly Karlin is a Russian-American businessman, journalist, and independent researcher who blogs about Russia, geopolitics, world affairs, human biodiversity, and futurism/transhumanism at The Unz Review. He is currently writing a book on the role of human intelligence in the global history of economic growth and technological development.
Scott Jackisch is a technologist, amateur futurist, and blogger at Oaklandfuturist.com. He is interested in embodied cognition, Effective Altruism, and the evolution of cooperation.
Michael Johnson is a Bay Area philosopher and blogger at opentheory.net. Born on a farm in Minnesota and raised on science fiction & Wittgenstein, his work now focuses on problems in the philosophy of physics, the problem of Qualia, and existential risk.
Josh Whiton is an entrepreneur working to enhance human life and support Earth’s ecological flourishing. His creations include TransLoc, the White House award-winning transit-tech company that improves personal mobility while reducing pollution and carbon emissions — and Raleigh City Farm, one of the first urban farms in the southeastern United States.
—Event Producer