Transhumanist community
The transhumanist community is loosely defined, often comprised of people involved or interested with a number of different transhumanist organisations, as well as parts of the wider emerging technology interest group, techno-optimists, longevity advocates, any of whom may or may not identify as a transhumanist.
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Online transhumanist communities
See List of Facebook groups and Category:Facebook
Slack
- Global slack community for transhumanists hosted by Transhumanism (organisation). (Email mailto:info@transhumanism.com.au if you have not yet received an invite.). See Slack
Forums
See transhumanist discussion forums
Meetup
Wikis
See Transhumanist wikis and Category:Wikis
See Reddit
(Info should be added here about LinkedIn groups)
Pros and cons of different tools for building a community
The drawbacks of Facebook are that:
- Some people prefer not to have a Facebook account, fearing that Facebook all too easily becomes a time sink
- Facebook admin can decide to delete or suspend someone's account, sometimes for seemingly arbitrary reasons
The advantages of Facebook are that:
- It undergoes rapid development, with new features being added regularly - therefore it is feature-rich
- Facebook puts a high focus on good user experience
- It is easier to check if a new applicant to join a group has a past online history elsewhere on Facebook which informs a decision whether to accept or reject them.
Slack
Drawbacks of Slack include:
- Lack of support for threading - the conversations can become difficult to follow
Advantages of Slack include:
- Support for integration of new services
- Users are notified when they are mentioned in postings
(Info should be added about LinkedIn)
Significant transhumanist organisations
Significant organizations and groupings within the broad overall transhumanist community include the following:
- Humanity+
- Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)
- Singularity University
- Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
- LessWrong
- Centre for Effective Altruism
- Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR)
- Future of Humanity Institute (FHI)
- Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)
- Future of Life Institute (FLI)
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
- Lifeboat Foundation
- Singularity Network (Reddit)
- Zero State
- Terasem
- Fractal Future Network
- Church of Perpetual Life
Advice on community building
The page Community building contains some tips and advice to help local transhumanist groups
- Get started
- Grow and have more impact
- Take advantage of useful tools, processes, and platforms
- Avoid pitfalls that have slowed down other local groups.
Dates in the year highlighted for special reasons
Transhumanists can take the opportunity of various dates in the year to highlight specific ideas:
- Calment's Day - 21st February [1]
- Future Day - 1st March [2]
- Longevity Day and Month - 1st October [3]
