Tips for Transhumanist Activists

West Coaster Michael Anissimov has come up with a brilliant little essay, "Working Towards Apotheosis", on the things he's learned in his thus-far brilliant career as a transhumanist activist. (He references me as an exemplar transhumanist activist at the end, so be sure to read all the way through.) For instance

• What you were doing before you became a transhumanist probably isn’t the best way to be a transhumanist activist
• Use your True Name.
• Take your potential future life as a transhuman far more seriously than your life as a human, yet take your life (and goals) as a human far more seriously than the average human takes their life.
• You actually have to get involved in transhumanist organizations to be a transhumanist.
• The only real transhumanists are transhumanist activists, and donors to transhumanist organizations.
• It is extremely unlikely that you are in any danger of “seeing things too narrowly” or “becoming an imbalanced person” due to transhumanist thinking.
• Even if our species wipes itself out or gets taken over by fundamentalist overlords, that doesn’t make transhumanism one iota less important.
• Please, write something.
• Being a transhumanist doesn’t make you any better than anyone else.

Pretty much everything he says here is something I've told young socialist activists over the years, except taking seriously their future life as transhumans. Then again Moore's Law and the inevitability of life extension is a lot more solid than the inevitablity of socialism ever was.