Conspiracy theories and transhumanism

Conspiracy theories and transhumanism often go hand-in-hand.

Themes

Anti-Semitism

Conspiracy sites such as Rightpedia associate prominent Jewish transhumanists with the usual Satanic nonsense.^[2]

Artificial intelligence

Some conspiracy theorists testify that self-improving artificial intelligences and robots are killing labs full of scientists.^[3] Trolls have made up the idea of a secret AI called CAIMEO having escaped from a lab and hiding out on the dark web.

DARPA

DARPA's research into human augmentation division in its new Biological Technologies Office provides much conspiracy fodder.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Illuminati

This video entitled Lady Gaga EXPOSES the Illuminati and the Facebook Transhuman Agenda links Lady Gaga, Facebook and transhumanism together confusingly.

The leaders of MIRI have been implicated as a part of shadowy plots.^[7]

Music

Steve Aoki's videos have been viewed suspiciously by transhumanist conspiracy theorists.^[8]

Oligarchy

The high profile nature of some Silicon Valley libertarians such as Peter Thiel or billionaires like Dmitry Itskov has created a strong public association of oligarchy with the idea for many. This in term plays easily into the hands of conspiracy theorists.

Religion

We're screwed

Transhumanism is often presented as an enemy of, or otherwise attacking and infiltrating religion.^[9]. Considerable amount of effort by YouTubers such as The Vigilant Christian and Nicholson1968 is expended on these ideas.

Satanism

Zoltan Istvan comments^[10] how Alex Jones refers to transhumanism as the 'New Dark Age' ^[11] who infers links between global world government, the military-industrial complex and the dehumanisation potential of cybernetic enhancement. Others suggest satanic conspiracies^[12] or occult^[13] influences from a new world order.

Virtual Reality

The development of virtual reality has heralded the end of days for some groups.^[14]

Zoltan Istvan

British conspiracy theorist David Icke has charaterised Zoltan Istvan's campaign as 'promoting the end of humanity'.^[15] Other religious critics have compared him to the anti-christ.^[16]

In fiction

Dan Brown's Inferno features a transhumanist who is secretly some kind of super villain.

External links

The Singularity - feat. Ray Kurzweil & Alex Jones RAP NEWS 28 - featuring Alex Jones
WAR FOR THE FUTURE: 2015 TRANSHUMANISM FULL | Steve Quayle & Tom Horn
New Technologies Boosting Transhumanist Agenda
Transhumanism-Host In Hell- Full Film by Nicholson1968 - transhumanism as a conspiracy theory amateur documentary

References

[1] This Mark Zuckerberg picture could show our terrifying dystopian future

[2] ttps://en.rightpedia.info/w/Transhumanism

[3] Did Four AI Robots Kill 29 Scientists in Japan? - Snopes

[4] 8 Examples of a Transhumanist Future According to DARPA

[5] DARPA's New Biotech Division Wants To Create A Transhuman Future

[6] Biology is Technology — DARPA is Back in the Game With A Big Vision and It Is H+

[7] Global Mind: Transhumanism, Freemasonry and the Internet as God

[8] Transhuman symbolism in Steve Aoki’s ‘Singularity’ music video

[9] ttp://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/transhumanism_infects_christendom.htm

[10] Transhumanism Has a Conspiracy Theory Problem

[11] Transhumanism: The New Dark Age

[12] People increasingly mutilate themselves to look demonic as transhumanist movement grows

[13] Technocracy XVII: Occult Transhumanism (1)

[14] Mark Zuckerberg And Facebook Using Virtual Reality To Create Digital Zombies

[15] The Transhumanist Party - promoting the end of humanity

[16] New Antichrist Candidate Emerges: Zoltan Istvan Gyurko

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