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Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

By: U.S. Transhumanist Party
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Intended to bring leading thinkers in areas such as longevity, transhumanism, futurism, artificial intelligence, politics, philosophy, art, and culture – making connections among disciplines to facilitate breakthroughs in understanding and a more rational, advanced, and informed society. In the spirit of the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, the Enlightenment Salons make possible in-depth, long-form conversations that enable the exploration of ideas about humankind’s future in unprecedented ways.Copyright Gennady Stolyarov II Political Science Politics & Government Science
Episodes
  • Pete Karas – Candidate for Wisconsin Secretary of State

    Pete Karas – Candidate for Wisconsin Secretary of State
    Mar 29 2026
    On Sunday, March 29, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited Pete Karas, who is running for Secretary of State in Wisconsin and seeking the USTP’s endorsement, to discuss his campaign and key ideas, as well as areas of alignment with the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform.


    Pete Karas believes that government should embrace innovation and use technology to improve democratic participation, access to information, and transparency. His campaign is pushing back against the structural barriers that make it hard for independent and third-party candidates to compete. In his view, fair ballot access, open debates, and electoral reforms are essential if we want a political system that actually allows new movements and ideas to grow.

    Pete Karas thinks that that the Secretary of State should provide a platform for transparency, modernization of government systems, and making public information easier for citizens to access.

    Pete Karas has worked in both the public and private sectors, from managing teams at a large insurance firm to launching and running his own business. Pete has never voted for a Democrat or a Republican for President. He believes the two-party system is not just broken but fundamentally anti-democratic. He is currently running as a third-party candidate with the Green Party in Wisconsin.

    Visit the campaign website of Pete Karas at https://petekaras.com/.

    Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership


    Visit the U.S. Transhumanist Party website: https://transhumanist-party.org

    Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership/

    See the YouTube playlist of all Virtual Enlightenment Salons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPn6dI5WUbjt19p2riEfk-qSfy_saOHm
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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Boyang Wang of Immortal Dragons, Purpose-Driven Longevity Fund in Singapore

    Boyang Wang of Immortal Dragons, Purpose-Driven Longevity Fund in Singapore
    Mar 22 2026
    Listen to the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s conversation with Boyang Wang, Founder of Immortal Dragons, a purpose-driven longevity fund based in Singapore focused on advancing life-extension and rejuvenation biotechnology, streamed on Sunday, March 22, 2026. This Virtual Enlightenment Salon discusses Boyang Wang’s support for longevity projects and what initiatives in the longevity field he considers to be most promising today and in the foreseeable future. Specific areas of interest include organ replacement and the study of long-lived animals, as well as efforts to engineer blood vessels, and to prevent and overcome cardiovascular disease through innovative drugs to lower LDL cholesterol levels. The discussion also ventures into frameworks for regulation of medical treatments in various countries, and Boyang offers his commentary about the key characteristics of each framework.

    This Virtual Enlightenment Salon was originally recorded on March 16, 2026. It is being publicly streamed for the first time. Panelists include U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, USTP Director of Marketing and 2020 Presidential Candidate, Charlie Kam, and USTP Director of Visual Art, Art Ramon Garcia, Jr.

    Visit the website of Immortal Dragons: https://www.id.life/

    Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership

    Visit the U.S. Transhumanist Party website: https://transhumanist-party.org

    Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership/

    See the YouTube playlist of all Virtual Enlightenment Salons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPn6dI5WUbjt19p2riEfk-qSfy_saOHm
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    56 mins
  • Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind – Introduction and Tenth Epoch (1794)

    Marquis de Condorcet: Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind – Introduction and Tenth Epoch (1794)
    Mar 15 2026
    On Sunday, March 15, 2026, the U.S. Transhumanist Party continued its exploration of the precursors of transhumanism and featured a special Virtual Enlightenment Salon stream that paid homage to one of the foremost thinkers of the original Age of Enlightenment, Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743 – 1794). Condorcet wrote his “Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind” during the final months of his life in early 1794, while in hiding from the Jacobin Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.


    U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II narrated the Introduction to Condorcet’s work, as well as his Tenth Epoch – the Future Progress of Mankind. This is one of the first historical writings which systematically articulated the possibility of indefinite life extension as a result of the technological and moral improvement of society. This remarkably techno-optimistic work was the parting gift to humanity by Condorcet – a polymath, philosopher, economist, and mathematician, who endeavored to preserve and expand the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, even when those ideas were under attack by bloodthirsty revolutionaries and reactionaries alike.


    Read the full “Outlines of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind” on the Liberty Fund website at https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/condorcet-outlines-of-an-historical-view-of-the-progress-of-the-human-mind/.


    Read Gennady Stolyarov II’s 2018 article, “Pioneers: Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794)”, published by LongeCity: https://www.longecity.org/forum/page/index.html/_/articles/condorcet


    Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership




    Visit the U.S. Transhumanist Party website: https://transhumanist-party.org

    Join the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside: https://transhumanist-party.org/membership/

    See the YouTube playlist of all Virtual Enlightenment Salons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPn6dI5WUbjt19p2riEfk-qSfy_saOHm
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    1 hr and 28 mins
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