David Pearce
@webmasterdave
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I am interested in the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world: https://t.co/XKNOcuG8IS
Brighton UK
Joined March 2009
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
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Darwinian Hellworlds and Cosmic Rescue Missions | David Pearce | AIADM L... https://t.co/7bmKmgc1DH 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. 🎧
singularityweblog.com
Philosopher David Pearce talks about suffering, being vegan, transhumanism, the Abolitionist Project, the Hedonistic Imperative and the singularity...
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@bryan_johnson @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 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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THANK YOU to everyone who showed up with us this morning. Here is a clear, edited version of the first half of our press conference. We will upload the second half, with the community comments, later tonight. NOTE: There is one part in the middle that you can't hear well. It
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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
@hemingquay "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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@AMAZlNGNATURE 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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@toasterlighting @kepe__ Celene how familiar are with @webmasterdave His thing is re-engineering both humans and the rest of the biosphere to eliminate suffering so that all sentients live life in gradients of intelligent bliss. May be of interest to you for obvious reasons.
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Read @webmasterdave 's excellent answers to my questions on the foundations of morality, consciousness, and the hedonistic imperative through the following link: https://t.co/nJbUYzGfgW
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@algekalipso @webmasterdave I am paraphrasing, but I remember David Pearce said something like: Other things being equal, people that love life wants to preserve life. We need to get to the genetic root of what makes humans destroy a civilization, and then virtually abolish existential risk.
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Alas genome reform is still almost inseparably associated with racist eugenics: https://t.co/CYyTILWuPo A rebuttal: https://t.co/1rgkNbPsRu Indeed, genetic tweaking may one day confer protection against racism itself: https://t.co/PLXjIXOZAC
npr.org
According to recent research, those afflicted by the rare genetic disorder known as Williams Syndrome substantially less prone to develop racist attitudes than those without Williams. Host Michel...
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my kind of transhumanist. (quietly admiring David Pearce fighting the good fight on twitter)
@elonmusk The number of self-reported LGBT people in general will increase worldwide as stigmatization diminishes. Official figures always undercount. Sex & gender are evolutionary relics we’d do well to outgrow. Until then, let’s avoid transphobia and respect everyone’s gender identity.
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“Why You Cling To Suffering When Bliss Is Possible” https://t.co/SVOY7GY1ex Wow.
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David Pearce's 2024 retrospective just released! https://t.co/nx1GVReViJ
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agi might bring infinite abundance but on the other hand there’s only so many houses on seacliff
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