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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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The Overlap Between Transhumanism and Eugenics

Julian Huxley coined the term transhumanism. He was a notable eugenist, especially at the peak of eugenics around the 1930s. And so when you put all those things together, it's the same people and many of the same kind of methods. So there's at least a very huge influence of one over the other.

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