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b'[This show first aired March 17, 2008.]\\xa0\\n\\nMichael Anissimov discusses transhumanism and its philosophical underpinnings.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n"Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism"\\n\\n\\u2013 Eliezer Yudkowsky\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nStephen mentioned the (very) short story he wrote about Leon Kass. It is titled "The Treatment."\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n"One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that happens to us, not something we create."\\n\\n- Michael Anissimov\\n\\nThis quote was first published\\xa0here\\xa0at The Speculist and was reprinted in Kurzweil\'s\\xa0The Singularity is Near.\\n\\nMichael Anissimov pointed us to both the\\xa0A.I. Panic!\\xa0blog and to the\\xa0Lifeboat Foundation.'