The Upwing Versus the Downwing

Upwingers are kind of technologists, radical optimists. They're like Elon Musk in terms of let's build a base on Mars and Ray Kurzweil in terms of I will rebuild my father and I will upload my brain and computer. When George W. Bush's bioethics panel said that the federal government should not be funding stem cell research, transhumanists started organizing against that judgment.

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