Here’s How Transhumanism Infected Everything
In 'The Transhumanist Temptation,' Grayson Quay unmasks a pernicious ideology that even those most opposed to it are having trouble resisting.In 'The Transhumanist Temptation,' Grayson Quay unmasks a pernicious ideology that even those most opposed to it are having trouble resisting.The new arms race is AI — and America’s kids are losing
The accelerating ascent, ubiquity, and commercialization of artificial intelligence require a renewed focus on truly elite human capital if we are to safeguard the future of Western civilization — both from external adversaries like China and also, perhaps even more importantly, from ourselves, especially given our postmodern and transhumanist tendencies.
In the coming years, we will need an elite cadre of Americans residing at the top levels of national and state government and bureaucracy. And yet, we are confronted by a very sad state of affairs across K-12 and postsecondary education, making the creation of such an elite class an increasingly difficult task.
We are clearly sapping the attention spans and atrophying the brains of our high school students.
A recent Atlantic article illustrated “Exhibit A” of this problem, namely, Harvard, the peak of elite credentialing institutions. The article, titled “The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A,” documents an alarming trend after decades of grade inflation. This excerpt helps give a sense of the problem’s progression: “In 2011, 60% of all grades were in the A range (up from 33% in 1985). By the 2020-21 academic year, that share had risen to 79%.”
Harvard has studied the problem and its effects: It turns out that when little effort is required to succeed in traditional academic respects, students stop going to class and, unsurprisingly, are doing less and less learning. An embarrassing fact emerges from faculty and student interviews: Fewer students are reading books and engaging with ideas at the world’s leading bastion of higher education. Trends are similar across the Ivies. The rise of ChatGPT and other large language models only exacerbates the problem.
The collapse of true learning in higher education should not be a surprise: The supply side for higher ed — teenagers — are rapidly incorporating LLMs into their daily academic lives.
In January, a Pew Research survey found that the number of America’s teenagers, ages 13-17, using ChatGPT had doubled since 2023 from 13% to 26%. Awareness among teens of ChatGPT has grown significantly over the last two years as well from 67% to 79%. With increasing familiarity comes the rising likelihood of teens using ChatGPT for homework and paper writing, as well as the opinion that it is legitimate and good for such purposes — roughly 50% to 80% of those surveyed, depending on how familiar they are with the technology.
Some initial studies suggest that this problem may be worse than the rising temptation of machine-aided plagiarism. An MIT Media Lab study determined that the use of ChatGPT in researching and composing papers led to underperformance “at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The main author of the paper emphasized that “developing brains are at the highest risk.” The study is still under peer review and has a small sample size, but it would seem to confirm a common theme of similar cognitive and concentration studies done by many researchers since the rise of social media and the smartphone.
We are clearly sapping the attention spans and atrophying the brains of our high school students. The best of them are going to elite institutions of higher education, where they are less likely than ever to take any real advantage of their most important years for stocking intellectual capital and forming their minds and souls.
Technological Quixotism
Our pursuit of the holy grail of artificial general intelligence is sold to us by our current technologist class on at least two tracks. We are told that the AGI revolution will cure cancer, extend our lives considerably, help us terraform Mars, and usher in a new age of abundance and convenience. Who doesn’t want that? And we also really have to do it, pedal to the metal, in order to beat China in the new nuclear arms race — that is, the AI race.
This generally pro-technologist point of view was represented in the recent attempt by Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and others to get a 10-year moratorium on state regulation of AI into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That effort failed, thankfully, despite an intense lobbying effort by a growing constellation of pro-AI Big Tech PACs, super PACS, and lobbyists.
Another finding in the MIT study also lends credence to the recent enthusiastic embrace of AI. If you took the test group that was asked to complete a writing assignment without ChatGPT to rewrite their paper without it physically in front of them but with ChatGPT’s assistance, their measured brain activity demonstrated more robust engagement and retention, and the finished product was of good quality. This suggests that the use of LLMs as aids rather than originators of thought and writing posed much less of a probability of cognitive laziness and atrophy. In this way, LLMs look more like a useful supplemental tool.
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Students face a great temptation to use this new technology as a pedagogical aid, as some elite universities like Duke are trying to integrate AI and LLMs into their systems and educational strategies. But growing research suggests that doing so has as many dangers as advantages. Consequently, AI must be approached very cautiously.
Moreover, integration of LLMs into K-12 education is gaining steam, especially given the increasingly ideological bent of primary education in recent decades. If the education-school-credentialed leftists who disproportionately populate the ranks of our public and private K-12 teachers can’t be trusted, perhaps the solution is to cut them out altogether and replace them with AI.
The use of LLMs as aids rather than originators of thought and writing posed much less of a chance of cognitive laziness and atrophy.
This experiment is currently being run by the private K-12 Alpha School based in Austin, Texas. Alpha Schools now have 17 locations either starting or nearly ready to launch across the country, charging roughly $45,000 in tuition annually. They boast excellent results in testing metrics (SAT and ACT), even while offering only two hours a day of AI-tutor-based instruction, followed by another four to five hours (including lunch) of life skills and creative and collaborative group work under the guidance of real-life human mentorship.
This is a new experiment, so it remains to be seen how Alpha students will fare on a longitudinal basis as the first cohorts matriculate into higher education. The Alpha schools are relentlessly data- and testing-driven, so perhaps they will navigate this uncharted territory successfully, avoiding the pitfalls of screen-based learning and attendant tradeoffs.
A litany of pre-AI age studies show the positive benefits of students getting back to the basics of education before the introduction of the screen. Taking notes by hand leads to better retention and absorption of material compared to taking notes on computers, to cite just one example.
Don’t let your servant become your master
The larger looming problem, however, is how we should educate elite students — how we should cultivate elite human capital — and equip them to navigate a rapidly changing national and international technological environment that is still bedeviled by the perennial and ancient difficulties of preserving “small-r” republicanism and the common good.
The argument of our technological class is that elite students should be set free — and even subsidized and offered quasi-monopoly protection — to pursue the quest for AGI. If we don’t, they argue, we’ll lose the AI arms race, and the West will be eclipsed by China, militarily and economically.
To rip an international anecdote from recent headlines to illustrate our dilemma further, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were caught in a hot mic moment at a China confab discussing exciting advancements in biotechnology and organ harvesting — and even what such “advancements” might mean for their own longevity. If Putin is excited about living for another 20 to 50 years, Xi and his oligarchy must be pondering and planning for the possibilities of biotechnology, gene editing, eugenic embryo selection, and artificial wombs as a possible solution to China’s demographic problem.
Couple that impulse with the race for AI supremacy, and we must face the possibility — perhaps quite soon — of an arms race not only in AGI, but also onto transhuman vistas previously relegated to the pages and screens of science fiction.
Navigating this future while preserving America’s spirit of liberty and constitutionalism will be a tall order. It will require large bets on the old tools and contours of liberal education by private philanthropy and local, state, and national governments.
The ultimate control of our republican future must not be left to the technologists, but rather to statesmen and leaders whose minds and souls have been shaped in their formative years by a deep consideration of those age-old questions of justice, the common good, natural rights, human flourishing, philosophy, and theology.
The argument that we don’t have time will be a powerful one. The relentless pursuit of new areas of technical knowledge will be sold as the more urgent task — after all, national survival, they say, may be at stake. Given the 20th century’s experience with technical mastery severed from ethical, political, and constitutional safeguards, the bet on the unfettered pursuit of technological supremacy to the neglect of all else is just as likely to result in self-destruction.
As my colleague Christopher Caldwell has recommended, our AI arms race must be augmented, supplemented, and ultimately guided and controlled by wise statesmen who are steeped in the older ways of American liberal arts education. My hope is that those who are anxious about the fate of free government in the face of external material threats and internal spiritual threats can join forces to navigate our brave new world with wisdom and courage.
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To that end, we urgently need to locate, recruit, equip, and refine as many members of America’s current and soon-to-be cognitive elite as we can find and help them become better readers, thinkers, and writers. They will then be properly prepared, at least to the extent we can help them to be, to balance our pursuit of technological progress — intelligently and humanely — with the traditions and principles of Western civilization.
We need a Manhattan Project for elite human capital. Our difficulty is that we can’t snap our fingers and replace the Harvards and Yales with Hillsdales. And yet something approximating that miraculous trick may be needed to save us from our international rivals — and from ourselves.
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a speech delivered at the 2025 National Conservatism Conference. It was published originally at the American Mind.
Why the right (and everyone) must fight back against transhumanism
It might seem odd to bring up transhumanism at a national conservatism conference. What does a fringe group of scientists trying to “become gods” have to do with national security, fiscal sanity, or securing our borders?
But as leading conservative policy activist Rachel Bovard argued at NatCon 5, the greatest threat to the movement may not be unhinged debt, unchecked immigration, or even foreign enemies. These threats are real — but they’re symptoms of something deeper. The more dangerous threat is philosophical. It’s metaphysical. And it’s already being engineered.
Transhumanism will seduce the libertarian wing of the right with the promise of individual freedom, productivity, and human enhancement. But make no mistake: Transhumanism is not liberation. It’s the edge of a metaphysical cliff.
Transhumanism, broadly defined, seeks to use technology to overcome the limits of the human species. More specifically, it's a global movement of scientists, technologists, and philosophers committed to accelerating humanity’s “evolution” into a post-human future — one free of weakness, ignorance, suffering, and, most ambitiously, death. Through artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, gene editing, and artificial wombs, transhumanists want to break the boundaries of biology itself.
Bovard is right to identify transhumanism as a direct assault on conservative metaphysics. Conservatives are metaphysical realists. We believe truth, goodness, and beauty exist independently of us. We believe human nature is not a construct but a reality — immutable, knowable, and worthy of reverence. The body is not an accident. It is a gift.
Transhumanism, in contrast, is anti-realist — and practically Marxist. Things like truth, goodness, beauty, and human nature are mere constructs. “In a world unmoored from truth,” Bovard warned, “everything can be rewritten. And the people with the most power can do the most rewriting.”
At its core, transhumanism isn’t a harmless theory tossed around on university campuses and tech conferences. It’s the will to power masquerading as liberation.
From transgenderism to transhumanism
The transgender ideology is the beachhead for this deeper revolution. If our culture can be convinced that male and female — the most basic, biological categories — are malleable, no metaphysical limit is left to defend. As Bovard put it, “If they can do that, they can do anything.”
Transgenderism prepares the way for transhumanism — both ideologies reject the body as given and instead treat it as material to be manipulated, dissolved, or remade. Both claim to be about “liberation,” but what they really offer is alienation from the real.
The ultimate goal, Bovard explains, is “to liberate people from reality” itself.
Transhumanism, however, goes beyond transgenderism's attack on gender into reality itself. The human body is editable, the human mind programmable, death overcomable, and metaphysical guardrails deplorable.
This dystopic “liberation” entails children gestated in pods, designer embryos edited for optimal traits, death turned into a programming glitch, and the human mind as a blank canvas for artificial intelligence.
As the father of transhumanism, Oxford professor Max Moore said bluntly, “The body is not sacred.” If it’s just a “random accident,” the human being, then — and the world we live in — become raw material for the powerful to re-engineer.
Reclaiming reality
Bovard reminds us that conservatives cannot limit ourselves to fiscal or foreign policy debates. These are important, but they are downstream from the real crisis: the loss of reality itself:
The task ahead of us is not to come up with better “make-believe.” It’s to get back to reality. To return to the “real” — in our metaphysics, in our culture, in our politics.
Reclaiming reality means returning to the source that gives reality any meaning at all: God.
“Without God,” Bovard continued, “there is no truth. There is no beauty. There is no good. There is no ‘is.’ There is only ‘might.’ There is only power.”
This is why appeals to “Judeo-Christian values” — while noble — are no longer enough. If we treat values merely as political instruments, we hollow out the very God who gives those values meaning. The task is not to instrumentalize God for the sake of the culture. It is to submit our culture — and ourselves — to God.
Generic appeals to “Judeo-Christian values” simply won’t weather the storm.
Embodying a different image
Bovard rightly sees our “culture wars” as a metaphysical war and the political war as a spiritual one. “You can’t fight a spiritual battle with a tax plan,” she continues, “or a transhumanist future with GDP growth alone.” We must clearly and boldly articulate conservatism’s core beliefs of reality — and then embody them.
Rene Girard taught that humans are mimetic creatures — we desire what is mirrored to us by people, images, and narratives. For too long, the same Marxist, anti-realist paradigm has dominated the Leitkultur, our public images, and our leading institutions. They have tantalized the most vulnerable and left them broken, mutilated, and disembodied from reality.
We must embody a counter image. If we want the next generation to desire virtue, we must be people of virtue. If we want people to cherish human nature, we must fall in love with being human. And if we want to affirm reality, we must cherish it and the God who made it.
This means embodying truth, goodness, and beauty in our lives. It means affirming reality not just with arguments but with reverence. And it means recovering a politics that begins in metaphysics, not just in messaging.
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Transhumanism will continue to grow in prominence. It will seduce the libertarian wing of the right with the promise of individual freedom, productivity, and human enhancement. But make no mistake: Transhumanism is not liberation. It’s the edge of a metaphysical cliff. And if we aren’t clear about what we’re for — not just what we’re against — we will find ourselves with strange and dangerous bedfellows.
Conservatism cannot simply be a social club for fiscal hawks and free speech warriors. It must be a positive commitment to the real: to human nature, to moral order, and to the God who authored them both.
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The current debates on the Right will determine whether this new American conservative coalition will remain American or conservative at all.Christianity is being rewritten by men who think they'll never die
Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker with a face stretched tighter than a vegan’s colon on day six of a juice cleanse, recently announced that he was launching a new religion. Not a metaphor, a movement. One built on data, pills, and the promise of eternal life without the inconvenience of God.
Johnson believes death is optional. He tracks every bodily function, transfuses his son’s blood into his own veins, and spends millions annually preserving the only thing he believes matters — himself. His gospel is a glib command: Don’t die. His scriptures are biomarkers. His prayer is performance metrics.
In this new theology, sin is a software bug, suffering is a processing error, and the soul is data waiting to be backed up in the cloud.
This is a cult of optimization that views death as a design flaw to be debugged. His apostles wear glucose monitors, not crosses. His commandments include measuring erections and being in bed by 8 p.m. It’s less about religion and more of a quantified self project wrapped in messianic branding.
The disturbing part isn’t that this exists. The disturbing part is that Christianity, in certain corners, is starting to echo it.
The church of optimization
Christian Transhumanism now has an association, published manifestos, academic papers, conferences, and a theology that bends scripture to fit a worldview once exclusive to secular Silicon Valley.
The movement is not fringe. It has preachers, pastors, and panels at religious universities where the soul is discussed like software architecture.
The idea is straightforward. Eternal life isn’t something granted by grace but something earned through code, cryonics, and cognitive enhancement. The second coming has been replaced by second-generation processors. Salvation will be engineered, not bestowed. And Christ’s miracles are reinterpreted as early prototypes for modern medicine.
A blind man sees? That’s early-stage gene therapy. Water into wine? Biochemical transmutation. The loaves and fishes? Caloric distribution logistics.
Everything sacred is being recoded into something sterile.
This isn’t an eccentric footnote. It’s a growing current within American religious life, where the ancient promises of the gospel are slowly being translated into tech jargon. Genesis rewritten by Google Docs. Resurrection rendered in machine learning. The holy becomes hackable. Redemption becomes regenerative medicine.
Salvation as a service
The absurdity lies in its self-seriousness. These people are not kidding. They see no contradiction in treating the body as a sacred temple while also modifying it like a smartphone. For them, Christ didn’t conquer death; he foreshadowed its technical workaround.
In this new theology, sin is a software bug, suffering is a processing error, and the soul is data waiting to be backed up in the cloud. What began as man made in God’s image has become God made in man’s ambition.
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Traditional Christians, including myself, see death as a profound reality, the consequence of the fall, and the gateway to something much greater. Christian Transhumanists, on the other hand, view it as an engineering challenge. The crucifixion becomes a parable of human frailty, not a divine sacrifice. The resurrection becomes a prototype. Immortality, once a gift, is now a goal — one to be reached by lab-grown organs and wearable tech.
The cross is no longer where death was defeated. It's where death was inconvenienced, pending a firmware update.
Thou shalt not die — terms and conditions apply
In place of humility, there is only hubris. The body is no longer a vessel but a project — a meat computer to be upgraded. And in this belief system, suffering is not redemptive but wasteful. Aging is not natural but irresponsible. Mortality is not part of life. It is the enemy of progress.
Bryan Johnson’s "Don’t Die" movement dispenses with theology altogether. His religion needs no god, no scripture, and no tradition. It runs on metrics. His followers swallow supplements with more discipline than communion. They measure sleep like monks once counted beads. They offer no prayers, only performance reviews. Forgiveness is replaced by fasting protocols. Devotion is tracked through biometric dashboards. The ritual isn’t Mass; it’s morning blood work.
Christian Transhumanism takes this same architecture and drapes it in religious language. It rebrands optimization as obedience. Gene editing becomes stewardship. AI becomes a divine assistant. There is no heresy, only enhancement. No judgment, only upgrade.
Every act of faith is repurposed as a kind of bioethical R&D.
Not faith evolved — faith erased
This is not evolution. It is, without question, erasure. The line between man and machine is being obliterated. In this system, the Incarnation was just early-stage embodiment. The second coming will be delivered through an update.
The problem is not just theological confusion. It’s civilizational delusion.
When churches start chasing the singularity, they stop being churches. When pastors quote longevity science instead of scripture, the pulpit becomes just another podcast studio. What follows is not spiritual growth but surrender. The flock becomes a customer base.
For 2,000 years, Christianity has offered a deeply human account of suffering, mortality, and redemption. It looks death in the eye. It doesn't fear the body’s decay. It doesn't promise escape through machinery. It promises something far more radical, a transformation not engineered by man but offered by God.
That tradition is being dismantled with white coats, press releases, and smiling men in biotech labs who talk about eternal life like it’s just another quarterly target.
Christian Transhumanists believe they are forging the next reformation. In truth, they are paving the way for a type of digital heresy. They speak of partnering with God. But the real goal is to replace Him — line by line, upgrade by upgrade, until there is nothing left but man, staring at his own reflection, convinced he has found eternity.
Whispers of a new terrifying Chinese AI ‘species’ ripple through tech circles
When China rolled out DeepSeek-R1 back in January, it sent shock waves through global markets and triggered a significant sell-off in American stocks, as it performed just as well, if not better, than U.S. models but could be produced at a fraction of the cost.
Now there are rumors of an R2 model that isn’t just smarter than anything we’ve ever seen before; it’s an entirely different kind of artificial intelligence that other leaders in AI development haven’t even fathomed.
“It is a completely different species of intelligence operating on principles nobody in the West has even theorized yet,” says Glenn Beck, reading from a social media post by an anonymous account that goes by the name @iruletheworldmo, who is speculated to be either “an insider in one of the big AI research firms” or “a bot” created to mislead other researchers.
“Research gives it questions, and it invents entirely new branches of mathematics to answer them. One physicist showed it a problem he'd been stuck on for 15 years. It solved it in seconds with notations nobody recognized. It took three days for them to translate its solution back into standard mathematics,” Glenn continues reading.
The anonymous source also claimed DeepSeek Labs in China is developing brain-enhancing technology, including two-way neural interfaces “that make Neuralink look like child’s play” and is already at the stage of human trials. The source then warned that while China sees this as a civilization-changing race, the U.S. is lagging behind, treating it like a standard tech competition.
If everything in the post is true and China’s DeepSeek AI has indeed reached such capabilities, we’re in trouble. However, there’s also the possibility that “it's a Chinese bot” stirring up fear.
The fact that we don’t know “is the craziest part,” says Glenn.
Even if the account is lying and DeepSeek AI is nowhere near as advanced as the post indicates, that doesn’t change what’s coming: “AI is going to get so good, it will predict absolutely every move that everybody's going to make,” says Glenn.
Just last week, Mass General Brigham unveiled an AI tool that can apparently assess your health by examining a selfie. Dubbed FaceAge, the system can estimate a person’s biological age, analyze features like skin texture and muscle tone to predict health outcomes, spot signs of cancer, and even predict cancer patients’ survival outcomes.
“How great is that?” asks Glenn, adding, "How terrifying is that?"
To hear more about the latest updates in the AI world, watch the clip above.
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The cyborg future is coming: Lab-grown humans are being made NOW
Joe Allen is quite the jack of all trades. He’s an author, a researcher, an arena rigger, an editor for Steve Bannon’s "War Room," and one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in the intersection of AI, transhumanism, and spirituality.
It’s the latter role Nicole Shanahan is most interested in.
“What is your definition of transhumanism?” she asked him on a recent episode of “Back to the People.”
It’s “the drive or the quest to use science and technology to go beyond the human,” Allen said.
It’s a merging of human and machine, in other words, and while it sounds like dystopian fiction, the concept is entirely real, and it’s happening right now.
We don’t have cyborgs yet, but given the fact that transhumanism has snaked its way into the reproductive world, which is booming today thanks to America’s fertility crisis, it’s likely only a matter of time before they walk among us.
Nicole points to transhumanist companies that are currently manufacturing human eggs in a lab “without any input from a female ovary” and then fertilizing them with either “real sperm or synthetic sperm, which can also be grown.” In other words, pseudo-human beings are being created by machines in laboratories.
Trying to stop this, she says, is “impossible” — as is halting the development of organoids or the implantation of brain chips.
“That leaves us with the fact that the transhumanist cyborg machine human is going to exist,” she says frankly, calling it a new attempt at the age-old ploy to steal the human soul.
“Now is the time that we have this very narrow window to create a fork for the future of humanity,” she tells Allen.
As terrifying as sharing the world with transhumanist creations is, Allen says there are two pieces of good news: One, the “god-like” AI we’ve been told is coming down the pike is likely a “sales pitch” that overexaggerates the actual product. Yes, humans will regard these technologies as “digital deities,” and yes, “they [will] have real power,” but they likely aren’t as superhuman as we’ve been told.
Secondly, “if we believe that we are intended to be more human than machine, and if we believe that there are realms far beyond this one to which we're accountable, then we're going to fight for it, and it's going to be across the world,” says Allen.
“It’s going to be a massive fight,” but “you have to have faith in the human spirit, the human soul, and the God that is within and above and moving through it.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.
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Silicon Valley's 'demons': Transhumanists possessed by something 'anti-human'
One of the foremost thought leaders in AI and transhumanism is Joe Allen, who now serves as the transhumanism editor for "Bannon’s War Room" — and he warns that transhumanism isn’t exactly a thing of the future, but rather it’s happening right now.
Transhumanism is the merging of humans with machines, and in the present moment, that consists of billions of people obsessively checking their iPhones. That addiction does not bode well for mankind.
While Allen believes “the power is in the transhumanists' court,” Shanahan, who was deeply embedded in Silicon Valley for a long enough time to really immerse herself in it — believes there is still power in the natural.
“I’ve been surrounded by this world for 15 years now and was always kind of beloved,” Shanahan tells Allen. “Beloved because I was very organic, not augmented in any way. Maybe I used Botox for a few years to try it out, but I stopped all of that.”
“I really love natural human biology. I think it is incredibly beautiful. I think it actually makes an individual beautiful and desirable because there’s something innate in every living being. And I think that this is the piece of the future where there will be mass desire, and this is talked about in 'Mad Max 2,' but for fully organic earthly women,” she continues.
“That never goes away, and I’ve seen a preview of that, having lived in Silicon Valley for as long as I have. I’ve seen that preview. I’ve seen these very powerful men seek out the most organic female, a female that almost reminds them of Greek oracles. So, brilliant, connected to God, channeling information, visionary, but also physically pure,” she adds.
She’s noticed that these tech elites “spiral” and become “greedy” in search of these kinds of women, which Allen chimes in to call “crunchy harems.”
An example of this, Shanahan says, is the Burning Man festival.
“Burning Man is a simulation of that world, of that future, of these very powerful elite men going to Burning Man, and all of these young beautiful women going to Burning Man, and creating these miniature harems around these men. I mean, that’s what Burning Man has become, unfortunately,” she tells Allen.
“You’ve been around a lot of these guys,” Allen says. “I know every person’s different, but by and large, is it misguided goodwill at the heart of the tech elite transhuman dream, or is there a touch of malevolence, or is there deep malevolence?”
“A bit of their humanity is possessed by something very anti-human,” Shanahan answers, adding, “They’re so manipulative; they’re trained in humanity.”
While Shanahan admits she doesn’t “understand it all,” she does “see where the humanity is and what is interfering with that humanity.”
“And I don’t know precisely what that thing is. I know Christians have a word for it,” she continues.
“Demon sounds about right to me,” Allen adds.
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