On Sunday, September 29, 2024, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Giovanni Santostasi, Ph.D., to discuss his research into historical price movements of Bitcoin and his view that the long-term price movements, as well as other aspects of Bitcoin’s adoption, follow a power law. 
In Dr. Santostasi’s words, “Power laws are mathematical expressions of the form y=A x^n and are ubiquitous in nature but also in social phenomena and many parameters related to how a city or a nation grows. They are so common because it can be shown mathematically and physically that they emerge any time you have some kind of process where the output becomes the new input in an iterative process.” 
Giovanni Santostasi, Ph.D., is a modern Renaissance man (he considers his native Italy’s Renaissance movement a historical precedent of Transhumanism). He has received a Ph.D. in Physics working on gravitational waves and neutron star astrophysics. He has spent over 20 years analyzing complex data in several scientific fields. He is also a neuroscientist and the Neuroscience Advisor of the U.S. Transhumanist Party. Furthermore, he is a financial analyst and is currently the CEO and Director of Research at Quantonomy.
Dr. Santostasi is the author of almost 100 research papers, and his works have been featured in prestigious scientific journals, as well as receiving attention from popular media like Men’s Health Magazine and ScienceDaily.com. 
Read Giovanni Santostasi’s article, “The Bitcoin Power Law Theory” - https://giovannisantostasi.medium.com/the-bitcoin-power-law-theory-962dfaf99ee9. 
Find Giovanni Santostasi’s writings on Medium: https://giovannisantostasi.medium.com/ 

On Sunday, September 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this stream of the discussion between Andreas Xirtus and U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II on recent developments in the pursuit of radical life extension and key considerations in science, philosophy, and lifestyle that can maximize our probabilities of reaching longevity escape velocity.
Key figures whose activities in the longevity field are discussed in this episode include Aubrey de Grey, Bill Andrews, Greg Fahy, Liz Parrish, Natalie Coles, Bryan Johnson, Larry Ellison, Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Voss, as well as the USTP’s 2024 U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate, Daniel Twedt, and some of the previous conversations in the Virtual Enlightenment Salon series are also highlighted. 

On Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites its 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate, Daniel Twedt (amateur radio call sign KK6VDR), to discuss the history of amateur radio, current developments in this field, applications of amateur radio toward supporting our civilization in emergencies and in citizen-science efforts, relevance of amateur radio to transhumanism, and legislation such as the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act (H.R. 4006).
Daniel Twedt is the USTP’s Director of Community and Citizen Science and 2024 U.S. Vice-Presidential Candidate. He previously ran for City Council in Thousand Oaks, California, in 2018, 2020, and 2022. During his campaigns he earned thousands of votes and spread awareness of the U.S. Transhumanist Party in local newspapers.
Find out about Daniel Twedt on the U.S. Transhumanist Party Candidates page: https://transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/#AboutDanielTwedt 
Find out about H.R. 4006 at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr4006 and read the text at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr4006/text. 

On Sunday, September 8, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch this special Virtual Enlightenment Salon where Dr. Dan Elton, the U.S. Transhumanist Party Director of Scholarship, recaps his experiences at the August 24 Human Augmentation Summit in Cambridge, MA, as well as at a special August 31 event with Dr. David Sinclair and Dr. Manolis Kellis, in Marblehead, MA. A panel of U.S. Transhumanist Party Officers and members discussed Dan Elton’s impressions of these two events and asked questions about the various projects and ideas featured there – including experiments with generative AI, a concept for an artificial womb, advances in wearable EEG devices, granular tracking of individual health data, the effort to get aging declared a disease, and the possibility of greatly extending lifespans by addressing the problem of epigenetic aging.
Visit the website of the Human Augmentation Summit -  https://www.augmentationlab.org/summit
Visit the MIT webpage of Dr. Manolis Kellis - https://web.mit.edu/manoli/ 

On Sunday, September 1, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Kai Micah Mills, one of the co-founders of CryoDAO, to discuss how decentralized science and funding are being deployed to accelerate high-impact research into cryopreservation.  
CryoDAO is a decentralized community of scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and advocates whose objective is to contribute to cryopreservation research projects that have a high potential to increase the quality and capabilities of cryopreservation.
Kai Micah Mills is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is also the Founder and CEO of Cryopets, an early-stage startup developing whole-body cryopreservation for mammals.
Kai Micah Mills previously discussed CryoPets during the U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon of June 26, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOJX44clJvU 
Visit the website of CryoDAO at https://www.cryodao.org/ 
Projects funded by CryoDAO: 
- Molecular Profiling and Computational Modeling for Novel Cryoprotectants – Dr. João Pedro de Magalhães and Dr. Roman Bauer: 
https://www.cryodao.org/project/molecular-profiling-and-computational-modelling-for-novel-cryoprotectants
- High-Viscosity Solutions to Mitigate Perfusion Impairment – Aschwin De Wolf: 
https://www.cryodao.org/project/high-viscosity-solutions-to-mitigate-perfusion-impairment
See the website of Kai Micah Mills: https://kaimicahmills.com/
See the website of Cryopets:  https://cryopets.com/

On Sunday, August 25, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Professor Robin Hanson to discuss his thoughts on the future of civilization, including the possibility of civilizational decline due to cultural drift and how to avoid this outcome. Some topics addressed will include declining fertility throughout the world, possible cultural responses, implications for a transhumanist and techno-optimistic vision of the future, as well as whether or not we are currently in a Great Filter. 
Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and received his Ph.D in 1997 in social sciences from Caltech. He joined George Mason's economics faculty in 1999 after completing a two-year post-doc at U.C Berkeley. His major fields of interest include health policy, regulation, and formal political theory. He is also interested in all aspects of the future, including uploading, nanotech, cosmology and the foundations of physics, future economic growth rates, limits of computation, and the origin of life.
Robin Hanson introduced the idea of the Great Filter in his 1998 essay, “The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It?” – http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html 
Read Robin Hanson’s writings on his website, Overcoming Bias: https://www.overcomingbias.com/ 
See Robin Hanson’s home page at George Mason University: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html 

On Sunday, August 18, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites writer and retired Lieutenant Colonel Allen Crowley to discuss historical U.S. military preparations to respond to potential conflicts in the Middle East, such as a missile exchange between Iran and Israel. 
Allen grew up in a castle, listening to lions roar at dusk and playing in the wilderness near the Fort Worth Zoo. He enlisted in the Texas National Guard in high school and earned a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant while attending Texas Christian University, home of the horned frogs.
In the military, he served as an infantry officer, working his way through the ranks from lieutenant to major, as a platoon leader, company executive officer, company commander, and staff officer. The majority of that training was designed to deter and defeat Soviet military aggression. Mobilizing for Operation Desert Storm drastically changed that focus.
Deployed to Iraq as a military officer seconded to the U.S. Department of State, Allen Crowley supported a wide range of nation-building efforts. His subsequent assignment was with U.S. Central Command, USCENTCOM, in the Coalition Coordination Center, Triple C, where he worked with liaisons from over 20 countries, coordinating the military actions of four coalitions in which the United States was a member.
His last tour was in Europe as a liaison officer between the U.S. Army Europe and the U.S. European Command, USEUCOM. In U.S. Army Europe, he worked in the Combined Operations and Intelligence Center, COIC, and worked in the EUCOM, Joint Operations Center, JOC. One of his many responsibilities involved simulated fighting the Iran/Israel missile war and planning for subsequent military operations on the ground following that battle. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, LTC (Ret), in January of 2012 after a 32-year career.

On Sunday, August 4, 2024, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Peter Voss to discuss his thoughts on the desired directions for future development of artificial intelligence in the effort to reach artificial general intelligence (AGI). He will explain why large-language models (LLMs) are not the path to AGI and what a more promising approach would involve. Peter Voss is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, CEO, engineer, and scientist. He is the founder of Aigo.ai, whose mission is to bring AGI to the world, to boost human flourishing. He was one of three people in 2002 who coined the term “artificial general intelligence”, along with Ben Goertzel and Shane Legg. Peter Voss previously shared his thoughts on AGI during a panel at FreedomFest on July 21, 2017, entitled “AI & Robots: Economy of the Future or End of Free Markets?” –    • Panel - Artificial Intelligence & Rob...   Read Peter Voss’s 2023 paper, co-authored with Mlađan Jovanović, “Why We Don’t Have AGI Yet” – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03598

On Sunday, July 28, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Dr. Abdelhadi Rebbaa to discuss his views regarding the potential and limitations for using senolytics to treat aging and go over alternative/complementary approaches to delay senescence onset. 
Dr. Abdelhadi Rebbaa received his PhD in Biochemistry from the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France. He held research and faculty positions at Northwestern University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University.  Over the course of his career, his research encompassed target and drug discovery and development in the fields of cancer, stem cells, and aging. He served as a Principal Investigator on multiple grants, published over 40 manuscripts, and reviewed manuscripts for several high-impact scientific journals. In his role at Ichor Therapeutics from 2018 to 2021, he oversaw the discovery and preclinical testing of small-molecule senolytics and biomarkers of aging. He then worked for SENS Research Foundation between January 2022 and January 2024, where his role was to conceive, design, and oversee research projects on senescence prevention, senolytics, and partial reprogramming. Now he works as a Project Management Consultant in New Jersey. 
See Dr. Abdelhadi Rebbaa’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelhadi-rebbaa-32bb9279/ 

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s conversation with Dr. Benjamin Rosman of the University of the Witwatersrand and Singularity University South Africa, who provided a thorough discussion of the future of work in a world of rapid automation.