David Pearce
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Let’s use biotech to engineer paradise:
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It’s impossible to overstate the horror of Darwinian life. It’s evil to the core. Natural selection is an engine of suffering. We differ in that the only way I know to end Dawinian life is genome reform executed with the consent of life lovers - pitched not as extinction, but hedonic uplift.
October 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It’s impossible to overstate the horror of Darwinian life. It’s evil to the core. Natural selection is an engine of suffering. We differ in that the only way I know to end Dawinian life is genome reform executed with the consent of life lovers - pitched not as extinction, but hedonic uplift.
and for anyone who prefers the King's English to dubbed German:
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Does a life without suffering make sense? Richard David Precht discusses this with David Pearce
Modern technologies promise us a longer life without suffering. But does a life without suffering still make sense? Richard David Precht discusses this with the British philosopher David Pearce.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
and for anyone who prefers the King's English to dubbed German:
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And from the recent London conference: www.hedweb.com/ai-for-anima...
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June 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
And from the recent London conference: www.hedweb.com/ai-for-anima...
Thank you I'd guess at least 70%-80% of conference participants believe in digital sentience. In my talk
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I expressed scepticism. But it's vital to avoid morally catastrophic error.
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I expressed scepticism. But it's vital to avoid morally catastrophic error.
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May 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Thank you I'd guess at least 70%-80% of conference participants believe in digital sentience. In my talk
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I expressed scepticism. But it's vital to avoid morally catastrophic error.
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I expressed scepticism. But it's vital to avoid morally catastrophic error.
What will be the date of the world's last unpleasant experience?
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The Hedonistic Imperative : 30 Years Later David Pearce interviewed by William Joy
The Hedonistic Imperatve: 30 Years On
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May 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
What will be the date of the world's last unpleasant experience?
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Most people still view suffering as inevitable. And naively, the existence of a food chain, for example, is as inescapable as the second law of thermodynamics. But blueprints exist for a genetically reformed post-suffering biosphere. What's needed now is political genius for their implementation.
April 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Most people still view suffering as inevitable. And naively, the existence of a food chain, for example, is as inescapable as the second law of thermodynamics. But blueprints exist for a genetically reformed post-suffering biosphere. What's needed now is political genius for their implementation.
Expressing disbelief in perception is apt to make one sound a solipsist. But no...
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Quora Answers by David Pearce (2015 - 2025) : transhumanism with a human face
Quora: an invitation to endless procrastination and punditry
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April 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Expressing disbelief in perception is apt to make one sound a solipsist. But no...
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A critique of HI from "WeaponizingPessimism":
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Maybe instead we can Weaponize Optimism with weapons of mass euphoria or a utilitronium shockwave.
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Maybe instead we can Weaponize Optimism with weapons of mass euphoria or a utilitronium shockwave.
The Problem of Bliss: The Hedonistic Imperative
YouTube video by WeaponizingPessimism
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April 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A critique of HI from "WeaponizingPessimism":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8x...
Maybe instead we can Weaponize Optimism with weapons of mass euphoria or a utilitronium shockwave.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8x...
Maybe instead we can Weaponize Optimism with weapons of mass euphoria or a utilitronium shockwave.
Thank you.
Step number one is low-tech. Outlaw slaughterhouses.
Step number one is low-tech. Outlaw slaughterhouses.
April 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Thank you.
Step number one is low-tech. Outlaw slaughterhouses.
Step number one is low-tech. Outlaw slaughterhouses.
I see cats from a mouse's perspective. But this view is not widely shared among humans, so I urge herbivorizarion:
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April 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I see cats from a mouse's perspective. But this view is not widely shared among humans, so I urge herbivorizarion:
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Nociception is vital; pain is optional. There are more civilized signalling systems than the traditional pleasure-pain axis, not least a pleasure-superpleasure axis. And our intelligent machines dispense with the signalling function of valence / hedonic tone altogether.
April 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Nociception is vital; pain is optional. There are more civilized signalling systems than the traditional pleasure-pain axis, not least a pleasure-superpleasure axis. And our intelligent machines dispense with the signalling function of valence / hedonic tone altogether.
Thanks for letting me know. Much appreciated. Fixed!
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April 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Thanks for letting me know. Much appreciated. Fixed!
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The slides for my talk at the AI for animals conference: www.hedweb.com/ai-for-anima...
and the talk:
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and the talk:
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April 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The slides for my talk at the AI for animals conference: www.hedweb.com/ai-for-anima...
and the talk:
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and the talk:
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and AI for Animals Berkeley 2025:
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March 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
and AI for Animals Berkeley 2025:
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Sure! Catnip-laced cultured meat for members of the cat family. The road to a civilized biosphere is going to be messy.
But sentient beings should harm each other. Humans now have the tools to make this happen.
But first: let's shut the death factories.
But sentient beings should harm each other. Humans now have the tools to make this happen.
But first: let's shut the death factories.
February 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Sure! Catnip-laced cultured meat for members of the cat family. The road to a civilized biosphere is going to be messy.
But sentient beings should harm each other. Humans now have the tools to make this happen.
But first: let's shut the death factories.
But sentient beings should harm each other. Humans now have the tools to make this happen.
But first: let's shut the death factories.
Eating the flesh of a dead cow, human or other creature that has died of natural causes isn't inherently morally objectionable. But human frailty means that establishing taboos against flesh consumption is probably wise.
February 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Eating the flesh of a dead cow, human or other creature that has died of natural causes isn't inherently morally objectionable. But human frailty means that establishing taboos against flesh consumption is probably wise.
Rewriting our genetic source code can replace the biology of pain & suffering with a more civilized signalling system: life based on information-sensitive gradients of well-being. Synthetic gene drives that cheat the "laws" of Mendelian inheritance can deliver hedonic uplift across the tree of life.
February 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Rewriting our genetic source code can replace the biology of pain & suffering with a more civilized signalling system: life based on information-sensitive gradients of well-being. Synthetic gene drives that cheat the "laws" of Mendelian inheritance can deliver hedonic uplift across the tree of life.
Our most urgent priority should be ending factory-farming and slaughterhouses.
So why have a debate about wild animal suffering now?
Well, if we _don't_ explore the issues, then animal advocates may misspend time and resources on misguided initiatives like "re-wilding".
So why have a debate about wild animal suffering now?
Well, if we _don't_ explore the issues, then animal advocates may misspend time and resources on misguided initiatives like "re-wilding".
February 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Our most urgent priority should be ending factory-farming and slaughterhouses.
So why have a debate about wild animal suffering now?
Well, if we _don't_ explore the issues, then animal advocates may misspend time and resources on misguided initiatives like "re-wilding".
So why have a debate about wild animal suffering now?
Well, if we _don't_ explore the issues, then animal advocates may misspend time and resources on misguided initiatives like "re-wilding".
This should take less than 60 seconds: www.hedweb.com/social-media...
If you want to dig deeper, there are hotlinks.
If you want to dig deeper, there are hotlinks.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This should take less than 60 seconds: www.hedweb.com/social-media...
If you want to dig deeper, there are hotlinks.
If you want to dig deeper, there are hotlinks.
We are discussing the long-term future of the biosphere, not a Five Year Plan.
February 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We are discussing the long-term future of the biosphere, not a Five Year Plan.
A democratically elected world government and/or all-female governance would dramatically reduce organized violence between coalitions of human male primates.
But this is a topic for another thread.
But this is a topic for another thread.
February 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A democratically elected world government and/or all-female governance would dramatically reduce organized violence between coalitions of human male primates.
But this is a topic for another thread.
But this is a topic for another thread.
Hence the case for working out the technical details in exhausting and exhaustive depth. CRISPR-based synthetic gene drives, in particular, are a game-changer.
Uncomfortable?
Being disembowelled, asphyxiated or eaten alive is frightful. So is starving to death.
Life doesn't have to be this way.
Uncomfortable?
Being disembowelled, asphyxiated or eaten alive is frightful. So is starving to death.
Life doesn't have to be this way.
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hence the case for working out the technical details in exhausting and exhaustive depth. CRISPR-based synthetic gene drives, in particular, are a game-changer.
Uncomfortable?
Being disembowelled, asphyxiated or eaten alive is frightful. So is starving to death.
Life doesn't have to be this way.
Uncomfortable?
Being disembowelled, asphyxiated or eaten alive is frightful. So is starving to death.
Life doesn't have to be this way.
Cruelty-free cultured meat and farm-free animal products will be readily available later this century for human and nonhuman animals alike. They are stopgaps before mature genome reform.
February 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Cruelty-free cultured meat and farm-free animal products will be readily available later this century for human and nonhuman animals alike. They are stopgaps before mature genome reform.