Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

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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.

  1. JAN 4

    Adam Czajkowski

    On Sunday, January 4, 2026, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Adam Czajkowski to discuss his experiences in running successful campaigns at State and local levels, how an effective campaign may succeed at healing political divisions and lead to policy accomplishments, and what lessons a minor political party such as the USTP can learn from these experiences to maximize its impact.  Adam Czajkowski is a managing partner at Tallac Strategies, a Reno-based political consulting and public relations firm. With experience working on political campaigns in multiple states, he is well-versed in fundraising tactics, field strategy, communications, coalition building, and campaign management. He specializes in working with values-driven political candidates, non-profit organizations, businesses, and labor groups. Through his services, he has contributed to the successful elections of multiple candidates in Nevada at the State and local levels.  Read Adam Czajkowski’s 2021 article, “A tactical guide to healing our political divisions” – https://thisisreno.com/2021/01/a-tactical-guide-to-healing-our-political-divisions-opinion/

    1h 56m

  2. 2025-12-28

    David Primer

    On Sunday, December 28, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites David Primer to discuss his insights from the field of data science and various beneficial applications of data analytics to medical research.  David W. Primer is the Founder of StrataQuant, a boutique data technology consulting company based in Chicago, IL. He is a Certified Professional in Business Intelligence and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He brings the disciplined, scientific approach he practiced performing cancer research to data analytics.  He received his B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and M.S. in Cancer Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Visit the website of StrataQuant: https://www.strataquant.com/  Listen to David Primer’s podcast, “Profit is a Science” - https://www.strataquant.com/profitisascience

    1h 57m

  3. 2025-12-21

    TransVision Madrid 2025 Summit

    On Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the fifth stream from the TransVision Madrid 2025 International Longevity Summit, which took place on October 1-2 in Madrid, Spain. The U.S. Transhumanist Party has allied with TransVision Madrid and Alianza Futurista, its fellow transhumanist political party in Spain, to bring you six more presentations by distinguished scientists, doctors, and longevity advocates. The presentations included in this compilation stream include the following: - Dr. Eduardo Díaz-Rubio, President of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain, specialist in internal medicine and oncology, presented his outlooks on immortality, health extension, and the prospects for advancing longevity through medical institutions. - Dr. Francisco Mera Cordero of Blue Healthcare, a specialist on aging and COVID, presented on the situation in regard to longevity in Spain - George Church, PhD, Professor, Harvard & MIT, presented on recent advancements in anti-aging protein, gene, cell, and organ therapies, providing a thorough overview of numerous research projects in progress. - Andrea Maier, MD, Founding President of the Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, a physician, scientist, and longevity doctor, discussed the applications of precision geromedicine in clinical practice. - Kenneth Scott (VivaSparkle), discussed his personal approaches to life extension as an 83-year-old entrepreneur, investor, and recipient of numerous emerging longevity treatments. - Dylan V. Livingston, Founder and CEO of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4LI) discussed the economic imperatives of reversing aging and achieving a Longevity Dividend, as well as recent efforts to shape pro-longevity policies in the United States, such as the Montana Right to Try Act. The U.S. Transhumanist Party thanks TransVision Madrid and its fellow transhumanist political party in Spain, Alianza Futurista, for providing the means to offer these presentations to our audience. Visit the website of TransVision Madrid: https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/ Visit the website of Alianza Futurista: https://www.alianzafuturista.com/ Watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party previous streams of TransVision Madrid events and presentations: Stream 1: Jose Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, and David Wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV6njT849XI Stream 2: Angel Versetti, the Panel on Longevity Advocacy, and Liz Parrish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xG7qCU511g Stream 3: Longevity March, Omniscope, Gil Rodas, Steve Horvath, and Michael Ringel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h1aM8EE14 Stream 4: Maria Blasco, João Pedro de Magalhães, José Crespo-Barrios, Daniel Muñoz-Espín, Natalie Coles, Lars Hartenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51obk3-7Ob8

    1h 50m

  4. 2025-12-14

    Brandon King

    On Sunday, December 14, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s conversation with Brandon King, who is running as a candidate for the Minnesota State House – District 20A and seeking the Transhumanist Party’s endorsement in a future vote. This Salon offers the opportunity for USTP members and the general public to become acquainted with Mr. King and his campaign, based on making Space and Time available to all through proposals such as the Minnesota Housing Sovereignty Act and the Minnesota Workweek Liberation Act. The conversation between Brandon King and U.S. Transhumanist Party Officers – Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, Art Ramon Garcia, Jr. (Director of Visual Art), Allen Crowley of the Texas Transhumanist Party, and Daniel Twedt (Director of Community and Citizen Science) was recorded on December 12, 2025, and delves into ideas such as Sovereign Homes – 3D-printed at low cost and offered to the public at reasonable monthly rates with the option to own them free and clear after 15 years; paying for a Universal Basic Income through a national program of asteroid mining; ways to find meaning and self-actualization in a society where employment becomes transformed through automation and working hours are reduced; the Enlightenment and its opposite, the Endarkenment; whether socialism and capitalism are meaningful terms in the 21st century and Brandon King’s concept of Enlightenment Socialism – based more on 18th-century and 19th-century conceptions of socialism rather than on 20th-century authoritarian models; and what he characterizes as a non-mystical view of the Singularity – including various scenarios of promise or peril, where human choices will determine which scenarios get realized. Visit Brandon King’s campaign website at https://www.brandonking4mn20a.com/ Brandon King has spent time as an activist in the transhumanist and longevity communities. He served as the second Chairman in the history of the United States Longevity Party, which was subsequently memorialized in the Statements of Historical Fact within the U.S. Transhumanist Party Constitution (Article I, Section II, Historical Fact 6) – https://transhumanist-party.org/constitution/#HistoricalFact – as Brandon King’s historical contributions were recognized when the U.S. Longevity Party merged with the U.S. Transhumanist Party in 2020.

    2h 1m

  5. 2025-12-07

    Ariel Feinerman

    What are the major obstacles that prevent effective anti-aging therapies from being developed? On Sunday, December 7, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party presents its conversation with Ariel VA Feinerman (recorded on May 10, 2025) on the problems standing in the way of regenerative medicine aimed at reversing human aging. Ariel outlined the damage-repair approach to achieving rejuvenation, based on the insights of Dr. Aubrey de Grey and his Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). Furthermore, Ariel analyzed in detail why funding from governmental sources and private investors is still largely misdirected, while such funding sources largely ignore truly promising damage-repair research and therapies that are currently capable of being tested and deployed. Ariel also explained the regulatory obstacles to the arrival of rejuvenation treatments, particularly the lengthy and outdated review processes of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which are poorly suited to the emerging paradigm for regenerative therapies. In the course of his presentation, Ariel VA Feinerman received and answered questions from the USTP panel, including Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, Allen Crowley of the Texas Transhumanist Party, Art Ramon Garcia, Jr. (Director of Visual Art), and Jason Geringer (Legislative Director). Ariel VA Feinerman is a research scientist, author, photographer, and longevity advocate who considers it his foremost goal "to improve human health and life, and achieve biological immortality in our lifetime." He describes himself as "interested in nanomedicine, bioengineering, biomedical engineering." He has educational and professional backgrounds in rejuvenation biotechnology, physics, programming, and entomology. In 2020, he co-founded the biotechnological company IntraClear Biologics OÜ, in Tallinn, Estonia, and became its Chief Science Officer. Read a more detailed biography of Ariel VA Feinerman and find links to his interviews with notable longevity researchers on his THPedia page at https://th-pedia.org//wiki/Ariel_VA_Feinerman. Read Ariel VA Feinerman’s blog on Medium: https://medium.com/@arielf. Visit the website of IntraClear Biologics at https://intraclearbiologics.com/. Visit the website of Oisín Biotechnologies:  https://www.oisinbio.com/ Visit the website of Dr. Aubrey de Grey’s Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation at https://levf.org/.

    1h 47m

  6. 2025-11-30

    Chairman's 9th Anniversary Message and Q&A - Gennady Stolyarov II

    On Sunday, November 30, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the U.S. Transhumanist Party, provides a video version of his Chairman’s Anniversary Message, as well as an opportunity for members of the U.S. Transhumanist Party and the public to ask him questions in a live session. The Chairman’s Anniversary Message aims to recap the key USTP events of the most recent year and also to provide a vision for the future of transhumanism and explain how that transhumanist vision can help guide societies toward a techno-optimistic future of longevity, peace, and abundance – despite the turbulence of our current era. The Q&A session is open-ended and aims to engage USTP members on issues that matter to them.  Gennady Stolyarov II became the second Chairman in the history of the U.S. Transhumanist Party on November 17, 2016. Find out more about him here: https://transhumanist-party.org/leadership/#GennadyStolyarovII  Watch Chairman Stolyarov’s May 25, 2025, presentation at Vitalist Bay, entitled “Why Openly Transhumanist Politics is Needed for Vitalism to Succeed” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHvDh7ax9EM

    1h 55m

  7. 2025-11-23

    Timothy Grady

    On Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Timothy Grady to discuss his campaign for Governor of Ohio in 2026 as an independent candidate. The conversation will cover the events of Mr. Grady’s campaign thus far, its objectives, his background and motivations, and his key policy ideas. The U.S. Transhumanist Party endorsed Timothy Grady’s candidacy on September 4, 2025, subsequent to a vote of its members. Subsequent to that endorsement, Mr. Grady issued the following statement: “I am honored to receive the endorsement of the U.S. Transhumanist Party. We share a commitment to the use of science and technology to the benefit of all. The Party is leading important conversations about emerging technologies, both their opportunities and risks. These are not challenges of some distant future but here and now, raising existential questions that demand leadership and foresight. I look forward to working with the Transhumanist Party to fight for a better future for everyone.” In particular, the U.S. Transhumanist Party has strong alignment with Tim Grady’s emphasis on political competition, desire to move beyond the rivalry of Left and Right, and ideas on ending political corruption and restoring accountability in Ohio’s government.  Visit Timothy Grady’s campaign website at https://timgradyforohio.com/ and read his stances on key policy issues at https://timgradyforohio.com/policy/

    1h 54m

  8. 2025-11-16

    Robin Hanson - Civilizational Goals to Prevent Decline

    On Sunday, November 16, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Robin Hanson to continue the discussion on cultural drift and how civilizational decline can be prevented by positing grand unifying goals that a society can unite around. The discussion will address the feasibility of a unifying goal such as radical life extension, which could be framed in objectively measurable ways, with specific incremental goalposts. It will also delve into the challenge of how to get from the current highly turbulent and polarized political and cultural situation to one in which large segments of society embrace the grand goal and work toward it. In addition, the discussion will aim to address various viewer questions and observations from the previous Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Robin Hanson of August 25, 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po99ApM8T7s  Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason's economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkeley. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. He is also interested in all aspects of the future, including uploading, nanotech, cosmology and the foundations of physics, future economic growth rates, limits of computation, and the origin of life. Read Robin Hanson’s writings on his website, Overcoming Bias: https://www.overcomingbias.com/  See Robin Hanson’s home page at George Mason University: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html

    1h 56m
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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.

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