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Timeless truths that will echo down the ages? Or webmasterdave’s contribution to the library of Babel? Alas, I can guess... But Happy 2018! #happiness #transhumanism #physics #ai #philosophy hedweb.com/quora/index.ht…

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Or webmasterdave’s contribution to the library of Babel?
Alas, I can guess...
But Happy 2018!
#happiness #transhumanism #physics #ai #philosophy 
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"Take care of happiness and the problem of meaning takes care of itself" -@webmasterdave


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annual "should I read all of hedweb"


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Adaptive Suffering-Abolitionists memeplex hangout in Sausalito :-) @webmasterdave @William59536350 @Curranjans & Zack Eagleton

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@webmasterdave  @William59536350 @Curranjans & Zack Eagleton

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With David Pearce and R.U. Sirius at the inauguration of the Point Reyes Reality Investigation Center (PRRIC) last night :-)

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Embryo screening for happy babies isn’t as powerful a tool as germline editing, but the world needs a reproductive revolution. astralcodexten.com/p/suddenly-tra…

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Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection

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About to have a delicious vegan Chinese food dinner in "Enjoy Vegetarian" (San Francisco) with @webmasterdave

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Fascinating. David Pearce, one of the most notable negative utilitarians today, is an EA. And folks like Brian Tomasik (another EA) have been arguing for years that destroying nature might be good because it means less wild-animal suffering. :-0

The local effective altruism community I was a part of was heavily antinatalist (because of negative utilitarianism). We had debates where people literally said they'd push a button to kill everyone, if they could be certain it'd actually be able to wipe out every sentient being,…



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David Pearce's essay 'Reprogramming Predators' - a clearheaded look at the immense moral significance of wild animal suffering. I've always found it astonishing how this view is so widely ignored/condemned. It seems so beautifully reasonable! Link: abolitionist.com/reprogramming/…

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I recently had the pleasure of talking to David Pearce (@webmasterdave) about transhumanism, negative utilitarianism vs classical utilitarianism, consciousness, and more. It was a fun conversation! open.substack.com/pub/ludwigraal…

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The #HedonisticImperative: A Vision for the Future of Sentience 🧠 herbertrsim.com/hedonistic-imp…

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Darwinian Hellworlds and Cosmic Rescue Missions | David Pearce | AIADM L... youtu.be/ske4wC_fT-o?si… via @YouTube

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David Pearce: "Transhumanism is a technical solution to an ethical problem." 12 years ago, we talked veganism, suffering, sentience, & why tech should end pain for all beings. Still one of the most radical visions of compassion I’ve heard. 🎧 snglrty.co/4orFFDi


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@elonmusk @grok saying this out of the blue about @webmasterdave's ideas makes me Feel the AGI like never before! I have found his ideas as an excellent global metric to optimise in the long term, and it's almost shocking to see Grok select it among all the possible things it…

rahulb2812 bryan_johnson David Pearce argues for genetically reprogramming life to abolish suffering, creating a "hedonistic imperative." It's correct as biotech advances could end pain without trade-offs, yet dismissed as utopian amid focus on incremental health gains.



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I’m grateful for the engagement from a prominent transhumanist. I’d encourage all my followers to read this exchange, which reveals how dangerously naïve transhumanists are (and “naïve” is a charitable reading; the other option is “pure evil”). These people believe so strongly…

"Satan was the first transhumanist." (Grayson Quay) The Transhumanist Declaration (1998, 2009) affirms our commitment to the well-being of all sentience. Such a commitment is not a tenet of Satanism as normally understood.



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Predation has no place in any civilized biosphere.


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“Nature is cruel. Evolution via natural selection is an engine of immense suffering. But an intelligent species has evolved that can edit its own genetic source code. The entire biosphere will soon be programmable.” - David Pearce

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