David Pearce

@webmasterdave

I am interested in the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world:

Brighton UK
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2009.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    2. sij 2018.

    Timeless truths that will echo down the ages? Or webmasterdave’s contribution to the library of Babel? Alas, I can guess... But Happy 2018!

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  2. prije 13 sati

    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” (Khaled Hosseini) Maybe. I’d still swallow the blue pill...

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  3. 30. sij

    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” (Voltaire) ("Regular dancing reduced the risk of dementia by 76%, which was twice as much as reading.") Perhaps try tea dancing?

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  4. 28. sij
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  5. 26. sij
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  6. 26. sij

    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” (Benjamin Franklin) Alas, philosophising about consciousness risks doing neither:

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    25. sij

    4/4 's essays always make their way into these pieces, and this time I link to one of 's interviews with the man:

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    20. sij

    The evolution of technologies like AI & biotech is raising complex new questions about the definition of self & the meaning of humanness. On the latest AI Alignment Podcast, catch & on the nature of identity in the 21st century.

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    19. sij

    woke up to a text from my mom about how a wild elephant went into a Sri Lankan hotel and gently wandered around while poking stuff with his trunk

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  10. 11. sij

    “Without suffering we would need each other less and our life stories would become ever more trivial.” Trivial or enriched?

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  11. 11. sij

    “Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.” (Voltaire) Can we learn to “cheat” responsibly?

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  12. 11. sij

    The future belongs to fanatical life lovers. My views on Darwinian life are darker than most antinatalists: But I'm only a "soft" antinatalist. The only way I know to end suffering is to reprogram the biosphere:

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  13. 10. sij

    Should anti-natalists intensify selection pressure in favour of natalism by staying child-free? The only way I know to end suffering is to reprogram the genome. All babies should be CRISPR babies...

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  14. 9. sij

    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” (George Bernard Shaw) All foods and all medicines are subtly psychoactive.

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  15. 6. sij
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  16. 4. sij

    “Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?” (Aeschylus) Time to become gods? SCN9A in the Daily Mail: Should all new babies be created with benign versions of SCN9A?

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  17. 1. sij

    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Carl Buehner) 2019 RIP...

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  18. 31. pro 2019.
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  19. 30. pro 2019.

    “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.” (Charles Chaplin)

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  20. 30. pro 2019.

    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” (James Baldwin) IMO we need a One Hundred Year Plan to relegate suffering to the dustbin of history:

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  21. 29. pro 2019.
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