The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all this Western-American conditioning has been on autopilot for centuries. Nobody is in control of it anymore.… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
In the future it's very possible you could have an artificial intelligence system that can run the country better than a human being. Because… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being. — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“From our first day alive on this planet, they began teaching society everything it knows and experiences. It was all brainwashing bullshit. Their trio… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the simulation theory. I tend to think that most of our existence, if not all of it, is part of… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“What prompts alarm in me is how you and your government want to ruin not only the potential of this of this country, but… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Whoever creates an artificial intelligence first has such a distinct military advantage over every other nation on the planet that they will forever, or… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
What I advocate for is that, as soon as we get to the point when artificial intelligence can take off and be as smart,… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
