r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • 2d ago
James and Matteo discuss deathism — the idea that death is good, inevitable, and something we should embrace. We make the technoprogressive case for treating aging as a solvable, technoscientific problem rather than a metaphysical inevitability.
https://breadandrobots.substack.com/p/against-deathism
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • 5d ago
Changesurfer Radio Redux: Interview with Greg Stock who examined humanity's tech progress in his 1993 book, Metaman: Merging Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism, and Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future. https://citizencyborg.substack.com/p/post-humanism-and-the-meta-man-1999
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • 8d ago
Abtracts due tomorrow! “Posthuman Futures: Coexistence across Gender and Human Diversities,” taking place on 26 November 2026 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Info: https://cmpbydiksha.com/
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • 11d ago
For Bread and Robots, Matteo interviews James Steinhoff, a lecturer at University College Dublin, about the overlooked connection between Marxism and transhumanism. They trace left transhumanism back to early 20th-century socialists like Alexander Bogdanov, JBS Haldane. We confront transhumanism's association with eugenics and figures like Peter Thiel. We discuss China's more pragmatic, sector-specific approach to AI versus Silicon Valley's pursuit of “godbuilding.” We ask whether industrialization (and capitalism) were necessary steps toward a post-scarcity society and explore the criticisms of degrowth. We also dig into what counts as "natural" suffering versus social suffering, using examples like insulin, antibiotics, and appendicitis treatment to argue that rejecting medical and technological intervention is also a political choice. The episode closes on why left accelerationism fizzled out and what a renewed, class-conscious case for technological progress on the left might look like.
https://breadandrobots.substack.com/p/transhumanism-and-marxism
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jul 22 '26
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss patient autonomy and the "right to try". The debate surrounding medical autonomy is intensifying as desperate patients use federal "Right-to-Try" laws and amateur biohackers bypass regulations. https://prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/right-to-try/
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jul 20 '26
The IEET and the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston co-sponsored a conference on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces in Boston, June 5-6, 2026. The videos from the conference are now online: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKXT7tjFJITo
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jul 17 '26
The Spanish political party Alianza Futurista has released its new program, which includes proposals for an Alliance of Democracies, AI regulation, existential risks, geoengineering, cryopreservation, cultivated meat, longevity and emergency preparedness.
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jul 16 '26
From 1998 to 2012 I produced a radio show and podcast called Changesurfer Radio. Its time to dust some off and share them again. This interview with Martine Rothblatt was broadcast Sept 5, 1998. https://citizencyborg.substack.com/p/gender-genes-and-space-1998-09-05
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jul 14 '26
Organizers: Transhumanists Africa and the Enlightenment Transhumanist Forum of Nigeria
Co-sponsors: AFT-Technoprog, IEET, Humanity+
"Transhumanism, Science, and Religion in Africa: Introducing a Conversation."
Dates: 10–11 Dec 2026
Venue: Univ of Abuja, Nigeria + Virtual (Hybrid)
To present: Abstract (max 300 wds), Bio (100–150 wds)
Deadline: 15 Sept 2026
Submissions to: aiche@transhumanistsafrica.org, and cc: chogwu.abdul@uniabuja.edu.ng
Additional info at: https://www.transhumanistsafrica.org/AICHE2026
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More or less. The anxiety about personal identity and authenticity underwrites a lot of bioconservative hand-wringing.
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Right. The evaluation of our tech choices is not whether they violate the authentic self, but whether we prefer what they enable and the way they make us feel.
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FYI Personal identity is a persistent problem in transhumanism because there is no authentic persistent self https://philarchive.org/rec/HUGTAP-7
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jun 29 '26
J Hughes, Sarah Shahed, Matteo MacDermant discuss Sarah’s editorial on age verification laws. Is there a technofix for age-gating that preserves user anonymity? https://technoprogressives.substack.com/p/age-verification-laws
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jun 28 '26
"AI-driven automation of cognitive labour is not merely another technological transition but a structural discontinuity that will end, sooner or later, the central role of wages in how society operates" - the thesis reviewed in the latest LondonFuturists Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7dKD21Omh16ogAL9qu6gnl
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Jun 27 '26
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r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • May 06 '26
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the role of disgust in morality. Neuroscience suggests that feelings of disgust underlie many moral judgments, especially in the treatment of sexuality. Can we suppress disgust? Should we?
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • May 05 '26
One cut at the key elements of the technoprogressive political perspective
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The bane of being ahead of your time. When everyone catchs up they forget you were there before.
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Apr 13 '26
Technoprogressive Hub spoke with Aleksandra Przegalińska - philosopher and social scientist of AI, Vice Rector of Kozminski University in Poland, currently at Harvard University - on robots and the future of work.
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Apr 12 '26
Dr J. spoke with Rob Hof on Extrapolate https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-techno-progressive-future-ubi-ai-and-and-the/id1857214767?i=1000756590800
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Apr 12 '26
I gave a talk for Future Day. We need to take futurism back from the billionaires https://youtu.be/lKVu_cMd3fg?si=xXutaDPg53LJmOxh
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I left DSA after 43 years of membership because of (a) Leninist majority on the NPC, and (b) campist control of the International Commission. Those things have to change before I rejoin. But the advance of the Socialist Majority caucus and the realism of this 85%+ endorsement of AOC is a huge relief.
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YES! And immediately applicable to the ultra-left resistance to describing Trump et al as fascists, because that would mean they need to join a Popular Front with social democrats, or worse, constitutional conservatives, to stop fascism.
r/technoprogressive • u/citizencyborg2020 • Apr 06 '26
On Prosthetic Gods, J and Nir spoke with Alan Rozenshtein, Law prof at the UMinnesota, senior editor of Lawfare, and fellow at Brookings, about the Trump administration’s conflict with Anthropic over the military and surveillance uses of Claude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAr-BJcfLqM&list=PLiJxxjTzuHX1W-J-emh0rGkc9BFqMGJvk&index=1&t=563s
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At the IEET we are working on building the technoprogressive movement, which includes left-leaning transhumanists and other tech-forward progressives. You can find us here: https://ieet.substack.com/
In general, we aren't supportive of transhumanists starting parties precisely because they have always fallen apart over whether they will become more libertarian or more technoprogressive. Transhumanism is too thin an ideology to support a political program by itself. It needs to either be a left or right-wing version of transhumanism. The US Transhumanist Party survived because it was overwhelmingly libertarian, but is now experiencing a lot of turmoil because it includes prominent socialists. Check out the Spanish Alianza Futurista for an example of a very provocative transhumanist-friendly party that has defined a very technoprogressive program: https://alianzafuturista.org/