IEET’s Natasha Vita-More Ph.D. and Hank Pellissier are starting USA Longevity Party, with Tom Mooney

IEET Fellow Natasha Vita-More Ph.D., and IEET Managing Director Hank Pellissier are starting, and co-directing, a USA branch of the “Longevity Party.”  The first Longevity Party was initiated in Russia, aided by the efforts of molecular biophysicist and IEET writer Maria Konovalenko. Israel also intends to organize a Longevity Party; that movement is co-led by IEET Affiliate Scholar Ilia Stambler, Ph.D.

I want to help. Please let me know how. Thanks.

My name is Brandon King, i have been a Transhumanist for 3 years, i am a Biotech major in college, hoping to transfer to UCLA in the near future, i intend to get my doctorate degree in Synthetic Biology. I discovered Transhumanism initially through the Immortality Institute after i got interested in Radical Life Extension, i have been interested in getting involved seriously for awhile now and i see this as a great way, is there any way i can help?

Please let me know specifics, party goals, interests, agenda. I am extremely interested putting this on the local Dutch agenda, not for the next elections, but maybe I can get people together for future elections.

My name is Brandon King, i am from Merced, California, i have been a Transhumanist for 3 years now and i am a biotech major in college, hoping to transfer to UCLA in the near future, my goal is to get my doctorate in Synthetic Biology. I was brought into the Transhumanist fold through our mutual interest in Radical Life Extension, and the more i researched Transhumanism, the more i became interested in it and its goals. I have been wanting to become more involved for a long time now, and i would love to have the chance to get involved in the USA Longevity Party. If there is anything i can do to help, i am more than eager to get involved in any way possible. I have always had an interest in politics, along with my interest in science, and have considered going into politics for a short while, being the Strong Libertarian i am, i disagree with many aspects of our current government.

I have started a new blog - not yet online - Longevity-ForLongerLife.

I’d be glad to do whatever I can.

I am 85 years young.

I disagree with Obama, he keeps pushing the Nanny State agenda, and he keeps cutting too much money from education, and education should have the MOST funding out of anything and should be brought up to todays standards, you dont start learning until college, i wasted 12 years that i could have been learning if we had a decent education system, i am self taught in almost everything because public education is so substandard and i wanted to learn so i had no choice but to teach myself. The plan Romney has proposed for education, A Chance For Every Child, is brilliant and i have been advocating the ideas laid inside of it for years now. Personally i am a Libertarian, i WOULD be a Liberal IF Liberalism meant what it used to, im a Classical Liberal, i embrace progress, but Obama is setting us back as a species even more. Remember, all progress is change, but not all change is progress.

I do not mean to debate politics here, i am merely trying to explain that even though i dont care too much about Romney(magic underwear anyone?) i prefer him to Obama, personally i want Ron Paul but America doesnt deserve a leader like him yet. “if you sacrifice safety for freedom, you deserve neither.” - Thomas Jefferson
Thats why im a little iffy on the singularity thing, i put more faith in biology than i do with robotics, my biggest concern with mind uploading is just because the data transfers doesnt mean the person does, im worried that even though everything we are will live on due to the transfer, our conscience will be left behind and we will in effect die, which is the opposite of what i want to happen, and a computer hacker could easily kill us with a virus, or purging the databanks, or just enslaving us. Mind uploading out of anything has probably one of the biggest existential risks involved, dont get me wrong if it gets proven to work 100% how we hope it does with enough security measures to prevent any possible risks, i would gladly embrace it, im just dont know enough about the risks yet, no one will until we are at the cusp of it.

Here I am (you know where to find me).

Cheers,
Fabio

Am I correct in seeing this as a lobbying group rather than a direct political party? I would be interested in seeing what ‘platform’ you would suggest as giving the best boost to longevity.

You can count me in as one of your supporters!

Wow I’d love to help, but I don’t see how I can in New Zealand. I’m sure there’s a few transhumanists floating around here but i’ve never met them.

good luck

Best wishes for Longevity Parties everywhere; let there be one in every college town, for starters.

For anyone interested, please like the Longevity Party United States Facebook page and join the group.

https://www.facebook.com/UnitedStatesLongevityParty the page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LongevityPartyUnitedStates/ the group

If Obama doesn’t do better in the final debate with Romney, will write in Longevity Party.
I will.
Obama has done his best, but even if he wins the election, ObamaCare is going to be scaled down by the next Gingrich-type who becomes Speaker of the House. It has become routinised since the ‘90s. This is going to go on for decades—it will.

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