The following is a transcript with presidential candidate for the Transhumanist party Zoltan Istvan.
1.) Your party is the trans-humanist party. Its a small and slightly unknown party, due to it being new of course. How do you plan on getting the name out and bringing in more Members?
At this point in time, the Transhumanist Party is really just trying to spread transhumanism. We have a nonmembership party, and our real aim is to use the media to get the word out that the future will be transhuman--and that future will be wonderful if we all allow it to happen.
2.) will you ever nominate anyone for Public office, other than yourself for the presidency? We have a few people that have reached out to me to try to run for office under the banner of the Transhumanist Party. However, so far they haven't declared themselves candidates. We did have one individual run for city council for the Transhumanist Party.
3.) What is your parties stance on economic, social, and foreign issues? Our party aims to be politically centric, but we tend to try to be socially liberal. We try to have an open border policy, and aim to spend more money on science and technology, than on the military. We also support a Universal Basic Income. Check out our website "platform" section to learn more.
4.) what is the first thing you would do as president? I'd begin process of spending less money on the military and putting that money into science, technology, and life extension research in America.
5.) One of your parties main stances is making people live forever. How would you handle over population?
The world can successfully handle twice as many people as it has now, but we must do a better job of sharing resources. Technology can help that. We can use new tech to grow food much quicker. We can change our body parts so that we might not even need food in the future. People don't realize how far science has come. Many of use will be cyborgs in 25 years. There's a robotic eye coming out in about 10 years that will be better than your eye. We can remake the human body so more people can easily and safely live on the planet.
6.) have you been campaigning at all in key states? No, I've been campaign through most of the East and West coast places. I have very little chance of winning the election, so most of my campaign is spreading transhumanism through the vehicle of politics.
7.) why should we choose your party, over a larger, more well known party? I don't think you should choose my party over another in this 2016 election cycle. Our goal is to get the other parties--the larger ones--talking technology. We encourage people to vote for the party that best serves science and technology during this election cycle.
8.) who is your Vice presidential pick? That is something I haven't thought about yet and don't plan to for a long while.
9.) whats your stance on the environment and global warming? I believe in global warming and I'd like to make the planet more pristine again. But I would like to do it via radical technology. I think that's the easiest way to do it. We should find the science to quickly regrow rainforests (in days). It's hard to change human behavior, but you can miracles with radical science and genetic editing.
10.) If you had to choose someone other than yourself for the presidency , who would it be? At this point, I believe it would be Gary Johnson.
11.) How would you handle ISIS? I'd overwhelm them with drones--and I mean very small drones that follow them around all the time. Maybe five drones for each member. Drone technology is very cheap--sometimes as cheap as $25 a drone. We could watch their every move and also drive them crazy.
12.) any final thoughts? Science and technology are radically changing the species. Many people don't realize how fast it will happen. Humans may not even exist as we do know in 50 years. We may be part robots already with artificial intelligence. We need to discuss these issues more. Our leaders need to discuss it more so we can plan a successful way forward for the species.
Thanks for reading! Go to http://www.zoltanistvan.com/ for more info!
Thanks again,
-Rocco.
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