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In this installment of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O’Shea is joined by anarcho-transhumanist William Gillis. William currently serves as Coordinating Director of the Center for a Stateless Society and an editor of “Anarcho-Transhuman – A Journal of Radical Possibility & Striving”. His writing can also be found on his personal page, Human Iterations. We discuss the concept of anarcho-transhumanism, William’s past as a primitivist, existential risk, AI, and more.

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Show Notes

What is anarcho-transhumanism? [2:00]

How William discovered transhumanism [3:03]

How William shifted from primitivism to transhumanism [5:05]

Anarcho-Transhuman: A Journal of Radical Possibility & Striving [7:50]

Anarcho-Transhuman Issue #4: Space? [9:04]

Ubiquitous nukes & printing AR-15s [10:50]

Choices: Primitivism, Authoritarianism, Extinction, or Anarchism [15:00]

Ryan’s Opinion: the utopian anarchist future is unlikely and flawed [20:00]

Complexity & the Social Singularity [22:04]

Humans as predictable machines [26:26]

An anarchist’s thoughts on transhumanist politics [27:27]

Thoughts on an AI government [29:00]

The potential of blockchain, cryptocurrency, & DAOs [32:22]

Resources to learn more about anarchism & anarcho-transhumanism [34:55]

Where to find William and his work [37:23]

Mentioned

Fermi Paradox

Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Party

Peter Gelderloos

– Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

– Anarchy Works: Examples of Anarchist Ideas in Practice

Kevin Carson

– Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective

– The Desktop Regulatory State

– Studies in Mutualist Political Economy

Elinor Ostrom

Voltairine de Cleyre

Errico Malatesta

Blueshifted.net

“An Anarcho-Transhumanist Manifesto”

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