“2022 is the year of the Great Filter. There has never been a more dangerous time for our species before, and there will not be again, if we survive this year.” This is the opening of the provocative essay by U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, entitled “2022: The Year of the Great Filter” - https://transhumanist-party.org/2022/05/16/2022-great-filter/
On Sunday, May 29, 2022, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s Virtual Enlightenment Salon focuses on a discussion of the ideas in this essay. Chairman Stolyarov provides a presentation of the key arguments in the essay, after which a vigorous discussion ensues among the U.S. Transhumanist Party Officer panel, which includes David Shumaker (Director of Applied Innovation), Jason Geringer (Legislative Director), and Art Ramon Garcia, Jr. (Director of Visual Art). At the end several previous reader questions and comments are addressed.
Excerpt from “2022: The Year of the Great Filter”: “The war in Ukraine has brought the world to the edge of nuclear calamity, because neither side wishes to negotiate or make concessions. The Russian regime makes reckless nuclear threats, Western/NATO powers recklessly ignore them, and continue to supply offensive weapons to Ukrainian forces, whose ideology favors recklessly dying for their country instead of prudently choosing to live for themselves. The risks of especially unintended, accidental escalation continue to accumulate the longer this war drags on with no clear end in sight.”
“The one ray of hope in all this is that I am firmly convinced that this is a unique, non-repeatable situation. If humankind can avoid extinction arising from reckless escalation here, then our species will never be in this much existential danger again, at least not from manmade causes. Here I provide my top ten reasons for holding this outlook.”
Watch the previous U.S. Transhumanist Party discussions on the Russia-Ukraine War:
- U.S. Transhumanist Party International Panel Discussion on De-Escalating the Russia-Ukraine Conflict – March 6, 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOx55UXDU0
- U.S. Transhumanist Party Panel on Reducing Existential Risk from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict – March 20, 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhq1a9vLJGg
- U.S. Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon on IFERS Aid to Refugees from Ukraine – April 3, 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCKjS8ReSwc
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