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Michael Anissimov is a futurist and political thinker focused on emerging technologies.
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Blogging The Anissimov – Smith Reaction Debate

I was really excited to hear about the video debate between Noah Smith and Michael Anissimov on neoreaction.

Noah is an economics professor and author of the fantastically punnishly named blog Noah Pinion. He’s also a pretty liberal guy who lists Paul Krugman as one of his heroes. Michael is a Bay Area futurist (possibly not his official job title?) and author of the moderately punnishly named blog More Right. He’s also a sort of spokesperson for neoreaction and someone I’ve argued with a lot in the past. Both are very smart guys.

I was looking forward to the debate because real engagement and discussion between reactionaries and nonreactionaries is hard to find. Even my FAQ, which I hoped would start that kind of engagement, got a couple of brief rebuttals, which I tried to briefly counter-rebut, and then the whole thing died down (this was partially my fault, but I was trying to save my comments threads from becoming too hostile and heated).

The debate didn’t really live up to my expectations, thoug

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Michael Anissimov – Transhumanism – Fear, Taboo & Utopia

Talking Points:
– What Frightens You about the Future?
– Class Divide in a Future of Abundance
– What does it Mean to be Human Today?
– How Will We Treat Artificial Life?
– History that Shaped Our View of Self
– Racial Taboos & Eugenics
– The Taboo of Religion
– Beyond the Human Baseline
– Hacking Our Humanity
– Utopias
– Mental Health in the Future
– Past Attempts at Utopia

Bio: Michael Anissimov (b. 1984) is a futurist and political thinker focused on emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence, previously managed Singularity Summit and worked as media director for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, as well as co-founding Extreme Futurist Festival. The Singularity Summit has received coverage from Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, the San Francisco Chronicle, award-winning science writer Carl Zimmer, The Verge, and a front page article in TIM

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Please add michael annisimov anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christine T (talk • contribs) 15:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There would have to be a Wikipedia article on Michael Anissimov in order for it to be listed in the Category:Transhumanists page. That being said, feel free to create one IF he is a notable person. Is he? --Loremaster (talk) 22:11, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Transhumanism is a very small movement. Pretty much any transhu